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 Health Mennonites live in the Chinook Health region. Numbers vary as groups migrate between home communities in Central America and the region. Chinook Health operates 12 hospitals, 15 community health centres, and 5 continuing care facilities in 14 communities. The health region employs more people in Lethbridge than any other single organization. Employees include 3,500 staff and 200 physicians. Chinook Health provides the following services throughout the region: Chinook Health Chinook Health is part of Alberta Health Services, the governing body for healthcare regulation in the Canadian province of Alberta. Chinook Health administers public health services in southwestern Alberta, Canada; the