Fort Rucker, Army Aviation bid bittersweet farewell to TH-67 Creek
By Jim Hughes, Fort Rucker Public Affairs | February 19, 2021
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Army Aviation bid a bittersweet farewell to an old friend that an estimated 90 percent of its aviators learned to fly in when it hosted its TH-67 Creek Final Flight ceremony at Cairns Army Airfield Feb. 17.
The fire department at Cairns gives one of the TH-67s at the ceremony a farewell hose down. This aircraft has the distinction of being the first TH-67 at Fort Rucker, arriving in 1993. Jim Hughes Photo
Two TH-67s, escorted by an AH-64 Apache, two UH-60 Black Hawks and a CH-47 Chinook, first flew to Howze Field for a salute from Brig. Gen. Stanley Budraitis, U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker deputy commanding general, Col. George Ferido, commander, 110th Aviation Brigade, and CW5 Jonathan Koziol, chief warrant officer of the Aviation Branch, then on to Cairns for a hose down courtesy of the airfield fire department and a short speech from Lt. Col. Keith Hill, 1st Battalion, 223rd Aviation Regiment commander.