Happy Birthday Huey
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MartG

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22,753 posts

233 months

Thursday 20th October 2016
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Huey is 60 years old today smile



First flight 20 October 1956 (XH-40)

Z06George

2,519 posts

218 months

Friday 21st October 2016
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Nice! When people talk about longest serving aircraft I never think of the Huey but that is a decent stint!

uncinqsix

3,239 posts

239 months

Friday 21st October 2016
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The RNZAF has only just retired theirs - those were mid 60's vintage if I recall correctly. Sometime in the 90's, the USAF donated one of their old worn out ones for the RNZAF museum, but that was newer and had fewer hours than the ones that NZ had in active service (and would be for another 20-odd years).