USMC Combat Helicopter & Tiltrotor Association

Re: Which unit captured Bell 214ST at Kuwait City Pretty sure it was 1st Tanks with Task Force Papa Bear that "captured" KIA (and therefore the h...

SIDSIKO;27264 wrote: I have the first HOK-1's being accepted by the Marines in 1953. Have a look at Thanks for the link. It appears that pa...

Newer list? Tom, I noticed your later list has some omissions from your previous list (HTL-1 and 5 and HUP-1 for example). Oversights or corre...

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The rest of the story... I spent a year in Iraq as the base safety officer at one of the largest air bases there. Not to sound too crass but the...

hueyguns;21865 wrote: I am looking for the After Action Reports for HML-167 for months Feb thru June, 1971... I found all previous reports at the Virt...

hueyguns;21865 wrote: I am looking for the After Action Reports for HML-167 for months Feb thru June, 1971... I found all previous reports at the Virt...

Here is the page out of the album I was thinking of. Not very helpful I guess because it doesn't even list all of the HRS versions. This is out of a...

4frank;19304 wrote: I have viewed this several times and now feel compelled to correct our (your) artist in his sketching portrayal of Marine helicopt...

Ryan;17863 wrote: Can Mike or anyone else explain the horizontal stabilizers (diagonal stabilizers?) go with which type. Some had what Mike drew, some...

The rest? I remember reading that the USMC got 38 AH-1Gs and four or five of those were loaned back to the Army for training. I count 31 on the ...

That was a quick response! Thanks! I probably work right next to were the command chronologies are stored and I didn't even think to check there...

The below is pasted from a quick search of Joe Baugher's serial number page - looks like quite a few D models have gone there. Perhaps the first E? ...

The Oki swapout of Js to Ws must have happened sometime during the next cycle because when I got to 367 at Camp Pendleton in 88 they were all AH-1Ws e...

Bunos Thanks Tom, I haven't done a lot of research into this yet but it looks like H-34s to Germany and the Netherlands and AH-1Js to Iran were...

Now I have to go back and refresh my memory but I think BuNos (vice serials or some other method of numbering) were issued and used for the AH-1Ws sol...

Thanks!! All, Thanks for your help. This is exactly the type of info I was looking for. I'll at this to my list and expand it to include othe...

HMT-301 or HMT-303 Not to be nitpicky but are you sure it was in HMT-301 and not HMT-303? HMT-303 is the Huey, Cobra RAG and for a while OV-10s ...

AH-1W Lineage No AH-1Js were converted to AH-1Ws except in a round about way. The first two AH-1Ts were actually made from the last two AH-1Js t...