Seth USMC Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 I was recently speaking with my CFI about the Comanche and he informed me that before the Army shut down the program they had built 13 ships total. That’s interesting because all the data that I can find on the subject suggests 4 at the most were made, with the general consensus being that only 2 were completed. Anyhow I am wondering if anyone here knows what became of the project and "prototypes" after the army shut it down. In my internet travels I found these excellent Comanche resource pages: Pictures: http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/boeing/r...he/page_01.http Some GREAT videos: http://oh1ninja.la.coocan.jp/misc/comanche...anche_movie.htm (this one is my favorite -- http://oh1ninja.la.coocan.jp/misc/comanche...ck_hovturn.mpeg ) -Seth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
500pilot Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 No idea how many were made but when I was working at Rucker after the program was cancelled they had one on display at the museum. Really an awesome looking helicopter. It was on display for about a month before they took it away. Several months later while flying I saw a Commanche flying the Bearcat Cooridor in front of a couple of OH-6's. I believe they were just doing some flight testing on some part of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth USMC Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 No idea how many were made but when I was working at Rucker after the program was cancelled they had one on display at the museum. Really an awesome looking helicopter. It was on display for about a month before they took it away. Several months later while flying I saw a Commanche flying the Bearcat Cooridor in front of a couple of OH-6's. I believe they were just doing some flight testing on some part of it. I made a similar post over at http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.ph...002#post2751002 Looks like only 2 were made that were flyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jehh Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 I'm sure there were reasons for canceling it, but none than I've heard... The sad thing is, they did 15 years of research on it, then threw it all away near the end. One thing I did hear is that it simply did not carry enough weapons, and thus would have required the Apache to stick around. It is getting long in the tooth, and either needs another revision, or a replacement. Now if they had decided to take the Comanche technology and combine it with a replacement for Apache, that would have made sense. But this is the government, and that would have been against their basic operating procedures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rookie101 Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 I'm sure there were reasons for canceling it, but none than I've heard... It would seem the Army saw fit the money be spent elsewhere, a real shame to, beautiful lookin bird. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/sys...raft/rah-66.htm Here are some more stats on it and it looks like they had a model that could carry just as big a pay load as the 'pache. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/rah-66.htmhttp://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/rah-...ion-image17.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Adams Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 I think it's still out there and in production (or a newer version of a Stealth Chopper). They just don't want people knowing about it so they "cancelled" it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukun8ter Posted July 21, 2017 Report Share Posted July 21, 2017 Sorry to revive an old thread. But there is a Commanche grounded on the Long Beach Boeing airfield. Black in color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyD Posted July 21, 2017 Report Share Posted July 21, 2017 You can see it on the ramp from the I405 freeway just north of the Cherry...I thought it was a movie prop for Airwolf or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris pochari Posted July 21, 2017 Report Share Posted July 21, 2017 Sad, it was a beautiful helicopter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBuzzkill Posted July 21, 2017 Report Share Posted July 21, 2017 Is that what you saw? http://imgur.com/a/MMAS2 If so, that's not a Comanche. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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