Singapore's Apache choppers return
by Derek Yeo


THREE BOEING AH-64D attack helicopters belonging to the Singapore Armed Forces, today re-deployed back to Singapore, after a four-year attachment to the Republic of Singapore Air Force's Peace Vanguard base in Arizona, USA.

Better known as Apache Longbow helicopters, the three aircraft are part of an original order of 20, Boeing received from Singapore worth US$1.2 billion. Since the first Apache delivery in May 2002, seven including the three ferried back have been delivered.

In its press statement on the Apaches' homecoming, the Ministry of Defence also disclosed that the helicopter will be on show at the Asian Aerospace 2006, 21 - 26 February.

The attack helicopters are expected to be stationed at the RSAF helicopter base at Sembawang.