This is our most complete list of helicopters
that were assigned to
Light Horse (as D3/5 & C3/17) and
Charliehorse (as D3/5).
The list was painstakingly prepared
for the WWWeb by
Long Knife Crew Chief, Claude Stevens.
The data is based on the "Gold Book"
and was provided by
Gary Roush at VHPA.
If you can't find your old ship it
is probably because the way the computers had some problems reading
"D3/5"
as a unit designator.
The aircraft are most likely listed
as being in other units.
Let us know and we'll try to run down
a missing tail number.
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OH-23G
"Killer Hiller"
The first helicopters listed are the OH-23G's.
There were 11 of them.
OH-23G
63-12886 had the most hours flown
in the troop, 441 hours.
OH-23G 64-15242 had the least amount of hours
flown in the troop, 3 hours.
OH6A "CAYUSE"
The "LOACH"
UH-1D
"Irquois"
The famous "HUEY"
UH-1D 64-13526 had
the most hours
flown in the troop, 914 hours.
UH-1D 66-00937 had the
least
amount of hours flown in the troop, 98 hours
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UH-1H
HUEY
Usually just called the "H" Model
The UH-1H replaced the under-powered UH-1D.
UH-1H
68-15405 had the most hours flown
in the troop, 2144 hours.
UH-1H 68-16597 had the least amount of hours
flown in the troop, 0 hours.
UH-1C HUEY
GUNSHIPS
Usually just called "Charlie Models"
Everone knew what you were talking about.
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The Charlie model was used as a gunship.
There were 15 that came through the troop.
UH-1C 66-15143 had the most
hours flown
in the troop, 1122 hours.
UH-1C 66-15063 had the least amount
of hours
flown in the troop, 0 hours.
AH-G
"COBRA"
AKA "SNAKE"
There were 41 that came through the troop.
The AH-1G "COBRA" gunship replaced the UH-1C Gunship.
AH-1G
67-15550 had the most hours flown
in the troop, 2612 hours.
AH-1G 67-15508 had the least amount of hours
flown in the troop, 0 hours.
OH-58A
Bell Jet Ranger
Fondly refered to as the OH-5.8 (not
quite a 6).
This list is exclusively for Charliehorse.
Aircraft
used by Charliehorse
before they changed to OH-6As.
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