Boeing CH-47 Chinook fires, and supporting petroleum extraction operations. In December 2006, Columbia Helicopters Inc purchased the type certificate of the Model 234 from Boeing. The Chinook has also been licensed to be built by companies outside the United States, such as Elicotteri Meridionali (now AgustaWestland) in Italy and Kawasaki in Japan. The Army finally settled on the larger Chinook as its standard medium-transport helicopter, and as of February 1966, 161 aircraft had been delivered to the Army. The 1st Cavalry Division had brought its organic Chinook battalion when it arrived in 1965 and a separate aviation medium helicopter company, the 147th, had
Chinook Sciences 300 million pound deal in principle ( subject to acceptable EPC) with the environmental and waste management company Bee'ah to build a thermal energy-from-waste facility in Sharjah, UAE. If the project proceeds, the deal is expected to create around 200 British jobs and secure another 650. On November 18, 2015, Chinook Sciences was honoured to win the Power/Energy category at the Institute of Engineering and Technology Awards in London. Chinook Sciences Chinook Sciences is a US and UK based technology company that specializes in waste to energy and metal recovery. Chinook Sciences holds many patents for its non-incineration "ultra clean