More detail on this person: Ret CW-4 Joe Koch
pasted away of a heart attack. He was working for
Boeing Helicopter. I served with Joe on the Cobra
NETT team in Vietnam. Joe later also served on
the AH-64 team when the Army fielded the first
aircraft. A good man gone. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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03/10/2024
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From: Jim Preston
I have just a couple of corrections on the
information for Joe Koch. He passed away on
06/01/06. He served two tours in Vietnam. His
first as an OH-6 scout pilot, and the second as a
Cobra pilot. He was the very first AH-64A Apache
SIP. He retired from the Army in 1985, and became
a test pilot for Hughes Helicopters. Joe started
on a path to management two years later while the
company transitioned to McDonnell Douglas and
finally The Boeing Company. He was the Senior
Support Manager for Support Systems, and he
received the Order of St. Michael in 2004.
From: Jeff Koch