Aircraft: The Three Squadrons of Chinook have the latest HC2 helicopter although in the near future the British version of Boeing's MH 47E, known as the HC3, will be joining 7 Sqn. 7 Sqn also own two Gazelle HT3 helicopters which they can use for inspecting planned routes that the Chinook will later use on it's night time sortie, checking that there are no new low level obstacles such as pylons, telegraph lines and mobile phone "nodes".
The year 2000 has bought another type of helicopter to Odiham, 657 Sqn have moved four or five Lynx helicopters to the base where they are sharing the same hangar as 7 Sqn.

Airfield Details: The airfield has two runway's 10/28(main) and 05/23(disused) with the latter being used for short landing close to the hangars for quick crew changes.

Although the Chinook is ideal for carrying up to 44 fully equipped troops from A to B quite easily, another of it's roles is to carry under slung loads (USL's), so an area to the Southside of 28 threshold known as the tactical load park or "tac park" has been created to allow crews to practice picking up a variety of loads ranging from a couple of 45 gallon drums in a net through to a 20ft ISO container weighing about 7 ton's.

Also on the Southside of the runway is the Southern refuel area, crews have the ability to practice rotors running refuelling from a military refuel vehicle parked along side, this can be used on exercise where the helicopter would have to land in remote areas away from airbases to refuel.