Four old CH-47Ds Chinooks are seen in open storage at Colmenar Viejo. These qere not suitable for conversion to CH-47F. This 19 is furnished with 50 years of Chinook operations within the Fuerzas Aeromóviles del Ejército de Tierra (FAMET, Spanish Army Airmobile Force )

The CH-47Fs of the Fuerzas Aeromóviles del Ejército de Tierra (FAMET, Spanish Army Airmobile Force)are assigned to the 5th Transport Helicopter Battalion (BHELTRA V), based at the "Coronel Maté" air base in Colmenar Viejo. Of the seventeen CH-47Fs the FAMET operates (as of November 2025), thirteen are existing CH-47Ds that have undergone a deep modernization, in which all possible components of the helicopters that the FAMET had operated since 1973 were used. The FAMET will eventually get eighteen "Woodland Desert Sage" camouflaged Foxtrots.

In 1993 the conversion to CH-47D was well underway. The black ones are CH-47D; the green one in the background is still a CH-47C.

later converted to CH-47D standard.