From: Larry Tighe (larryradio@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Dec 04 2004 - 07:19:33 PST
Howdy Chance,
I wound up my mil activity flying NG hueys. The old B models had more
patches than the original metal....or so they appeared :>). Never saw, a C
model. The M models were old B's modified with a massive "540" rotor system
and bigger engine...among many other changes.
Lar
You can go to www.qrz.com to look up N numbers. Just look at the left side
of the page and somewhere in there it offers you the N lookups.
www.antiquetelephone.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] UH-1H in CA F/S
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sandman9" <sandman9@optonline.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] UH-1H in CA F/S
>
>
>> There is a complete one in Montana for $150000.00
>> John Peterson
>
> Hmm. I might have to sell my M151 to raise that kind of money. Maybe a
> couple radios too. :)
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied sorting out my 'usage' /categories of
> operation stuff. I see that $150,000 creature is carrying a civvy N-reg
> which presumably means it's been certified for civvy use at someone else's
> expense? Would one be able to tell what category it was certified under
> by
> running the N-number through some FAA agency?
>
> I've been to Uh-1.com a couple of times. I really get turned off when
> fifty-three ads all have "make offer" in the "price" field, mostly because
> that generally means another run-in with the aviation equivalent of Farmer
> Shotgun (y'know, they never say "Stick 'em Up!", but you know they're
> *thinking* it... ;)
>
> As to the Hueys getting into "the wrong hands" and what-not, that's a
> little
> silly because all budding terrorist Abdul Krashemala has to do is head on
> down to the aerodrome in Greater Little Toe, Nevada, and spend a few
> thousand bucks on some clapped-out Jet Ranger from the flying school.
> <shrug> I doubt those kinda guys are going to be into expending their
> resources on 35 yr old, one-owner,
> driven-by-a-little-old-GI-to-work-every-morning, gas-guzzling fixer-uppers
> in pursuit of their nefarious ends, but...legislative mileage may vary.
> Third-world Tin-pot dictators might have visions of acquiring some to
> oppress the local population ("Help! I'm being Oppressed!") to the tune of
> "Ride of the Valkyries" or somethin', but...it's been done. Old hat.
> It's
> all so...Pinochet. Anyhow, it's the enlightened 2000's now. They'll
> probably hold out for Blackhawks...
>
> When I was in England in 1989, I hit every museum I could drag the old man
> to. One of them was the RAAF Museum at the old airfield at Middle Wallop.
> (I love how all the names sound as though they were plagiarized from
> Beatrix
> Potter.) Anyhow, out in the parking lot they had a bunch of junk captured
> from the Argentinians during the Falklands War including most of a Pucara
> jump-jet, some odds'n'sods of AAA-kinda stuff.....and a Huey.
>
> I've always liked Hueys, so naturally I climbed all over it. I didn't
> take
> photographs but I'm pretty sure it was a UH-1B or C (Bell 204 - shorter
> than
> the 205 and the UH-1H), and the Argie paintjob was flaking off like some
> $40
> Maaco special ("for Forty-FIVE dollars - we'll even wash it first!") As
> you worked on bits and pieces of the Argie paintwork (while nobody was
> looking), the previous marking scheme came to light - in English. Mostly
> in
> English. On the "Driver's Door" was something written in Vietnamese I
> didn't have the presence of mind to write down, but it was similar to
> stuff
> I'd seen on various Hueys in books I'd read on the VN war. Wow. If only
> that thing could talk. The first thing I thought of when I caught sight
> of
> the Vietnamese writing was seeing all those ARVN UH-1s being dumped off
> the
> decks of those aircraft carriers during the evacuation of Saigon in 1975
> (I
> was a typical 11-yr old, and figured if they didn't want them - here's my
> address...)
>
> I guess the Destruction, Restriction and Mutilation Service (DRMS) could
> selectively mutiliate the same part on all the ones they release as
> Not-to-Be-Flown - but as has been suggested - hopefully in a way that
> doesn't reduce them to a pile of artsy tinfoil (like the current
> requirements for the 'sale' of those C-130 fuselages at Davis Monthan.) I
> personally think it's a terrible thing to do a machine like that, but
> could
> live with it if it meant the difference between saving them and...Gama
> Goat-ing them.
>
> ("Thank you for purchasing your Gama Goat through GL. Please take the
> tires
> and wheel nuts to the checkout as per contract, and have us verify that
> everything else has gone through the shredder. Alot.")
>
>
>
>
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