It was returned to service in 2011 to operate as a “Thank You” to Vietnam War Veterans and has completed over 180 missions since then. Based at Cu Chi, it survived multiple small arms attacks and one RPG strike. This Huey served in the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam, performing troop insertions and extractions, medical evacuations, helicopter crew recoveries, smoke, sniffer psyops, and firefly missions. These aircraft operated in the hostile environment of Vietnam for almost a decade. It is not fitted with external weapons to save weight and is only armed with the M60s used by the door gunners. This particular helicopter is a “Slick”, used for troop carrying. The “Huey” nickname stuck thanks to her early “HU-1” designation (it was later redesignated to UH-1 with the normalization of 1962). From 1965 to 1973, the Bell UH-1, officially named “Iroquois” was the most common utility helicopter used in Vietnam.
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