Boeing Apache AH-64 attack helicopter (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Keith Fretwell
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Size: 39" x 25" (1000mm x 630mm)
Date: 2005
Signature: Signed by artist lower middle under rocket launcher
Code: FretwellChopper2

This is the Signed unique original Mixed Media art by Keith Fretwell.

A very detailed and accurate painting of an Apache attack helicopter in full attack mode. The Boeing AH-64 Apache is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tail wheel landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew.

It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 Chain Gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hard points mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods.

The U.S. Army is the primary operator of the AH-64; it has also become the primary attack helicopter of multiple nations, including Greece, Japan, Israel, the Netherlands and Singapore; as well as being produced under license in the United Kingdom as the Agusta Westland Apache.

U.S. AH-64s have served in conflicts in Panama, the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Israel used the Apache in its military conflicts in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip; British and Dutch Apaches have seen deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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• Artist Biography

  Keith Fretwell
  The late Keith Fretwell was a very skilled aviation artist. He illustrated numerous books in Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces series.
  Source: Osprey Publishing