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The AH-64 was first "blooded" in combat during Operation Just Cause in Panama in December 1989. The warbirds provided fire support for an assault on the Comandancia building of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega's Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF).
The AH-64 Apache has been integral to 21st-century American conflicts serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The attack helicopter has also been exported around the globe: to Israel, the UK, the Netherlands, South Korea, Japan, and more – making the AH-64 Apache perhaps the world’s most recognizable attack helicopter.
The Boeing AH-64 has been the workhorse attack helicopter for the United States Army since the mid-1980s but it shows no signs of being put out to pasture anytime soon.
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The United States Army reports that two AH-64 Apache helicopters based at Fort Wainwright in Alaska have crashed in near the town of Healy.
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The United States Army reports that two AH-64 Apache helicopters based at Fort Wainwright in Alaska have crashed in near the town of Healy.