My Old UH-1D

[Retired W4]

Yep, you'd think I would know better………..

I do like the 50 cals in the door.

 

[digi-shots]

Here's a close up of the white paint under the od green.. with another smooth coat of green under the white.

 

[fordson]

I do like the 50 cals in the door.

Yeah, I was Navy flying with Marines. I wasn't allowed to have loaded weapons………

 

[jjrr]

This talk of Hueys brings back memories. I was a Huey crew chief and first ship I was assigned was an old A model in the 283rd aviation company in the Dominican Republic at Camp Randall air field was a polo field. When we left there we became A company of the 82nd Aviation Bn at Ft Bragg. We got twenty something brand new D models with the L13 engines and if my memory is correct those engines wouldn't last much past 2000 hours. Again if my memory is correct up around 2000 hours the EGT would start creeping up and somewhere between 2500 and 3000 hours they would fail. Anyway lots of pleasant experiences with the Hueys. With those new choppers they were all hitting their inspection hours about the same time and until the hours began to spread out we had to work seven days a week to keep them flying.

 

[Retired W4]

Here's a close up of the white paint under the od green.. with another smooth coat of green under the white.

In the early 90s there was a big push to give a lot of UH-1s and OH-58s to whatever LE agency that would take them away. I saw that a lot at NAS Dallas, which was a Reserve Flight Facility. Once they took possession of them they fell under a restricted class with pretty loose maintenance requirements. It's possible the cargo door window you have came from that environment. That might explain the strange paint application. Paint is heavy so you don't want too much of it.

BTW, most of the lookers I talked with in Dallas were more interested in the 58s rather than the Hueys. UH-1s were too expensive for a small sheriffs department to operate.