#PICTURES OF A HUEY HELICOPTER SERIAL NUMBERS#
There are other serial numbers stamped on other parts of the airframe, however, and museum friend and Huey expert Pat Rodgers found such a number on our Huey’s drive train. But when these Hueys were permanently grounded, the data plates were returned to Bell Helicopter. Since both helicopters were passed on from the Army Reserve squadron based at Wheeler Army Air Field, it was apparent they had cut one set of stencils and used them twice.Įvery military aircraft has a manufacturer’s data plate that gives the particulars of that airframe. The folks there confirmed that their Huey actually matched the serial number. Not only that, the same serial was painted on at least one other Huey, which is currently on display at Barbers Point. It wasn’t until I started to research the aircraft’s history that we discovered she wasn’t what we thought she was. The weather beaten aircraft had been sitting in Hangar 79 for years, a modest monument to the massive evolution in battlefield rotorcraft during the Vietnam War. This is the case with Pacific Aviation Museum’s Huey helicopter. Sometimes, mysteries aren’t where you expect to find them. The numbers match.”Īnd just like that, a mystery was solved. Then he jumped down and quietly said, “Here she is - Huey 411. He began to poke around, occasionally consulting a dog-eared logbook. By Burl Burlingame | | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museumīob Broaddus folded his lanky frame into the UH-1H Huey and stuck his head up into the equivalent of the aircraft’s rafters.
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