Trumpeter 1/35 Trumpeter CH47A Chinook HelicopterThe CH 47A, first delivered for use in Vietnam on August 1962, is a tandem rotor medium transport helicopter. The Chinook's primary mission is moving artillery, ammunition, personnel, and supplies on the battlefield. It also performs rescue, aeromedical, parachuting, aircraft recovery and special operations missions. Early production CH 47As operated with the 11th Air Assault Division during 1963 and in October of that year the aircraft was formally