This is a livery to represent the Chinooks flown by A Company "Pachyderms" of the 159th Assault Support Helicopter Battalion, during the Vietnam war. As requested by community member HeadwindH, who served with the Pachyderms back in the late 1960s and has kindly written some background information for this livery, and also shared some amazing photos and background here.
101st Airborne, A Co.,159th ASHB ‘Pachyderms’ CH-47 in Vietnam
The 101st Airborne Division 159th Assault Support Helicopter Battalion (ASHB) ‘Liftmaster’ in Vietnam was formed in 1968 from the 308th Combat Aviation Battalion. The 159th was eventually composed of three CH-47 companies (A: Pachyderms (‘Press On’), B: Varsity (‘First String Support’, and C: Playtex (‘Support Extraordinaire’). Pachyderms were formerly the 200th Medium Lift Helicopter Company in Bear Cat. After moving to the 101st division in 1968 the 159th was based at Phu Bai in I Corp, Vietnam.
Chinooks conducted artillery support, troop movement, flare and flame drops, fire-base insertions and extractions, airdrops and aircraft recovery missions. The most noteworthy mission for the Chinook was placing artillery batteries in perilous mountain positions inaccessible by any other means and keeping them resupplied daily with tons of artillery shells.
The livery is derived from the stock "US Army Green" livery from Miltech - with added dirt and new markings.
Since the Miltech Chinook is the CH-47D variant, there are some small inaccuracies vs the CH-47C flown at the time.
If you like the livery please leave a review - and also do let me know if you've got suggestions for additional details I can add to improve authenticity.
2 months ago
ricker1113
Flak has made my life so much sweeter with his wonderful liveries of the Learjet 35 N417BA and now the CH-47 in 'Pachyderm' paint. What a spectacular job. The new MSFS CH-47 by Miltech and the Flightsimware FSW35a are the two best aircraft now in MSFS 2020 and Flak has made them even better. Thank you sir!
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