We investigate possibilities of obtaining information on the chirality of the charm-changing current ~s) by measuring the helicities of hadrons with spin in exclusive hadronic charmed particle decays.As more data on charmed particle decays are becoming available, it is desirable to obtain more detailed information on the decays than is obtainable from measurements of rates alone. In particular, since the charm changing current ~s) is believed to be lefthanded, it would be interesting to find out whether this helicity information is being handed down to hadrons with spin in the final state.For semileptonic charmed particle decays this, has been answered in the affirmative [1,2]. However, in semi.leptonic decays useful helicity information can only be collected in a limited q2.range (qu being the momentum transfer to the leptons) due to angular momentum constraints at the kinematic boundaries. Compared to these the hadronic two-body decay modes are concentrated at a "fixed" q2 = m 2 which is more favourable to a helicity analysis from rate considerations alone.We start our considerations with charmed meson decays [3,4]. The AC = AS = 1 transitions are generated by an effective hamiltonian [3 ],1 This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy. 2 Permanent address: Tufts University, Medford, M A 02155, USA. ~eff is the usual GIM current-current form renormalized at short distances by gluon exchange effects [5]. Without renormalization one has f+ =f_ = 1. The renormalized values for charmed particle decays have been calculated in ref. [3] and are given by]'_ = f+-2 = 2.15.The effective hamiltonian (1) leads to the quark transitions shown in the inset of fig. 1. These can be calculated in the quark model since the local form of (1) allows one to relate the diagrams of fig.