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 Wines by wine experts such as Paul Gregutt to be "the classic expression of Yakima Valley fruit". Chinook's work with Cabernet franc, in particular, has garnered the statewide acclaim with the dry Cabernet franc "rosé" often described in wine reviews as a "Washington Chinon". The winery is named after the Chinook wind that blows through the Pacific Northwest rather than the Chinook salmon that is also common to the region. Chinook was founded in 1983 in the Yakima Valley by the wife-husband team of Kay Simon and Clay Mackey who met while both were working at Chateau Ste. Michelle with Simon