glad you are having fun with your restored 1-e. i know the aircraft as being a fire suppression aircraft her in tallahassee for the division of forestry. thought you might like to see the static 1-b aircraft dressed out as a navy seawolf we drag to airshows.

Hey Birdman,
This was in the 267 until 1976, it must have been painted red also..Cool!.
Im looking at different formats for the ACE OF SPADES for her. The Nose art I would like to be airbrushed on, The tail will be done in stinsels. Im putting her in the gunship format, I know she was not a gunship in the 267..Just personal choice..Should have the gun mounts this month sometime. I also decided to put the skull and crossbones inside the ACE OF SPADES for a gunship format.
Im haveing trouble finding a good picture for the artist to copy. Found some playing cards that the GI's used to put on the bodies of the dead VC. Scared the crap out of them when they found the bodies.
Does anyone have any pictures of gunships with above format?
Just finished painting the floor , also painted the seats back to Olive Drab.

Great pictures of your B model! Love to see the trailer you haul it on? or do you guys fly it in?..Do you let people climb on it?...Guess when myne is finished I should not..Haveing a alumium ladder/support for the blades added to the trailer to support both blades. Will have a hinged cover and soft fome to hold the blades.
Thanks guys!.
Kevin in Maryalnd.

PS, Which ACE OF SPADES do you like?
I kinda like the Zippo lighter one..

Uh-1e

Hey Kevin, she's looking good! The ace of spades on her when I was there was simply an ace of spades with the letters UV kind of transposed with each other. I don't recall nose art like we had on our birds on the carrier.
Birdman

Come to think of it, the ace of spades WAS on the nose as well. I found a plastic helicopter model in a model shop several years ago that was a model of a Huey with the ace of spades and the UV call sign. I bought it and it sits on a shelf today. Pretty cool finding a model of a helicopter that I actually flew in!!!

There's a picture of a HML-267 Huey here

It shows the Ace of Spades on the nose with the a/c number and on the tail with the UV tail code.

HMLA-267 currently has an Ace of Spades with a skull on the nose of their a/c like the one in this patch.

Great! Looks Cool!>..
Thanks for the pic, # 2 Looks just like myne. I Will Copy the format and Insert a Skull and see how it looks, got a airbrush guy that wants to do the work. Will keep you guys posted.. thanks for your help!.
Kevin...
ps, that current 267 patch looks cool!..

Hey Guys,
couple of pics of some more work on the Huey, My buddy and I are adding Blade supports to the trailer. Now I can Tow it without worry about the blades getting damaged.
Kevin...

Hey Guys,
Just got my gun mounts installed, going to remove them and paint them green. Leaving the rocket pods white as was told most were painted. It will look better on myne with the white 'MARINE" on the tail etc..Plus they were white on the inhouse birds..Also painted my 5 ton, and installed a receiver to pull the Huey to the shows..Will have some more pics when I hook it up and take it for a test pull around the town..Should be interesting...
Kevin..
decodeme@verizon.net

PS* ANYONE GOT SOME FLEX AMMO CARRIERS FOR 308?..7.62
NEED 13'...TOTAL..

Couple more...

This is a picture I took in '69 of a UH-1E gunship on HML-267's flightline at Camp Pendleton. Yours is the cleanest Huey I've ever seen.

As you can see from the '69 photo; the UH-1E gunships had the cargo doors removed.

Vmo-5/hml-267

Couldn't figure out how to post the picture.

Those pictures bring back old memories, Tom. I reported in to HML-267 in Sept. '68 and left for Marble Mountain on 2 June '69. I remember barn owls in the rafters of the Metal Shop in the second and third pictures.

Allyn Hinton;27763 wrote: As you can see from the '69 photo; the UH-1E gunships had the cargo doors removed.

Good catch, Allyn. I didn't notice the doors were still on the restored huey.

I flew 151858 24 flights, 31.7 hours from 28 Feb '67 to 16 Sep '68 as an instructor pilot. That was in both VMO-5 and HML-267. I took her on two Gun-1 flights. I do not remember what all was covered on those flights but it probably did not include shooting so she may not have had AFC-7 but probably had at least a "sight." Oct '68 I was back at Marble in the OV-10A.

Lanny

Allyn Hinton;27763 wrote: As you can see from the '69 photo; the UH-1E gunships had the cargo doors removed.

In 66-67 VMO2 kept the doors on and used an L clip to keep the air flow from popping them off in flight. I never could follow the logic for that since we couldn't close them because of the external ammo feeds. And it was insult to injury on the night TAOR's in the "winter" when it got chilly at 3,000....

This was sent to me by then Capt Dave Ballentine

"Tom, It's in my logbook from HML267. I flew a Nav hop in Sept 67 and a test hop Mar 68 and April, etc... Can you let the guy know? I can't answer his NOTAM Board notes. Give him my email if you want. What a great idea to restore it. Dave

Hey Guys,
Been a hot summer, Just got back from vacation to the outer banks NC.
Thanks for the infomation. If Tom or Lenny have any pictures of her that would be great, I know its a shot in the dark, but worth asking. Also can you send me Your pictures to add to the the scrap book im building that goes with the Bird..I have Allyn's picture and hope fully will have Major General William Whitlow's picture soon. He also flew her in 1968-69..
The 4 pictures Tom posted, in the 4th picture, I can see her in the orginal as issued paint sceam in the back ground. I would love to get a picture of 'E' Models with that paint. Tom or anyone who has info on her, I would love to talk to you..Iven if you just want to talk I Love talking about the Hueys.
I can be reached anytime at 301.922.2009 cell..
email: decodeme@verizon.net
PS: On 9/11/2010 I have been invited to a Wounded Marine Fund raiser Get together at USMC Clyde Childress Property in VA.
He earned 21 air medals, Distinguished flying cross, and is a well known chopper pilot in Nam.
I will bring My Bird to the event.
attached are some resent pictures. Hope to see you guys there if you can make it. Bring any photos, I would love to see them!..link below..
Kevin...
http://www.usapatriotsday.com/

Hey Guys,
Just a update..
Did meet a great guy Major(ret) Clyde Childress USMC while at a Wounded warrior fund raiser he put on this month.
He did look in his log books and found out he flew my bird over 100+ hours with some 'gun runs'...
Neat talking to him and the media went nuts filming him and the bird..He earned 21 air medals and a DFC. He also got shot down twice..He said he just got lucky.
Kevin...

ps, check out the other pictures from the weekend.

http://www.usapatriotsday.com/

Uh-1e / uh-1b

I see this a lot here and on other sites about VMO-1 reguarding the UH-1B. I was in VMO-1 when we had both Bs and Es. VMO-1 had UH-1Bs that were lent to us from the Army for training until the UH-1Es came off the line. The best way to quickly tell them apart was the pitot tube. The B models had the pitot tube under the co-pilots window and the E model had them on the roof. The first Es went to WESTPAC.

Woo Hoo

Glad its finally shaping up. Semper Fi, and READY-APP.

Uh-1E

Glad you found a modle of it as well. Semper Fi, and READY-APP.

Decodeme2

I missed wether its still flying, or static. Hope its Flying. Semper Fi, and READY-APP.

Re: Restoring a uh-1e vietnam info needed

how did you acquire this aircraft? I am trying to find an e-model to restore and am not having any luck

Re: Restoring a uh-1e vietnam info needed

hueyguns;33260 wrote: how did you acquire this aircraft? I am trying to find an e-model to restore and am not having any luck

Call me anytime..Kevin. 301.922.2009 cell...
ps, they made 205.. 36 survived VN.
Gunships are getting very hard to find....
Slicks are easy to find...(made more of them)..