It’s owned by the local college for their A&P program. The students get to work on it a bit, they removed & reinstalled the engine last year. Right now we’re jumping through hoops to get the college to allow people from outside the college to work on it. New paint job was mentioned so I made a 2 minute phone call & looks like I have the materials donated. Original plan was 114th paint scheme but I can’t get anyone from that unit interested at all, so I may throw a 129th AHC paint job on it as a friend flew with them… so it would look like Huey #509 in the UK, but with the correct nose art (yellow Shelby style Cobra for a gunship).
Took me ages to find the ID of this bird & then within about 10 minutes of getting it the guy who was crew chief with Boeing came out of the woodwork. It was used as a test bird for radar that was installed on missiles apparently.

It has a decal on one side from Wa State dated 1990. The college have owned it for a while. Immediate plan is to install the T/R driveshaft so it can be run without the chance of unintentional excitement. They have the shaft, they’re missing the mounts to bolt it to the boom. Also need to replace the r/h greenhouse as a student put his hand through it. Was surprised to find it was only 2mm thick.

Downloaded the maint manuals & parts books from UH1 Ops.com They have just about everything in their resources section.

Now waiting for the Risk Assessment people at the college to give the go ahead after they look at liability issues of letting a bunch of Vietnam Vets loose on it.. 🙂