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 2014 that Chinook Sciences had been honoured in the 20th Annual Environment and Energy Awards. Chinook won as the most innovative company in the Energy from Waste Category for its patented End Stage Recycling® Technology with Renewable Energy generation. Chinook Sciences was named winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation on the 21st of April 2014. Published on that date to mark the Queen's birthday. Chinook Sciences won for their development of thermal heat treatment plants for recovering recycled metal and generating renewable energy from waste. On May 23, 2014 Chinook Sciences announced that it had secured a