|
|
Dates |
|
Event |
|
|
Constructed as an UH-1D-BF by Bell at Fort Worth, Texas, USA. |
March 1967 |
|
Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 66-16171. |
March 1967 |
|
To Director of Supply Transportation, 6th Army, Sharpe Army Depot, CA. |
May 1967 |
|
Transferred to Army Aviation Division, Dugway Proving Ground, UT. |
June 1967 |
|
Transferred to U. S. Army Republic of Vietnam Flight Detachment, South Vietnam. |
By October 1967 |
|
Transferred to Scarlet Flight, Second Airlift Platoon, 189th Assault Helicopter Company, Camp Holloway, Pleiku, RVN. |
6 October 1967 |
|
Damaged.
While being flown by Capt. Eustice Shiver and 1st LT. Charles Craig along the Ho Chi Min Trail, Kingdom Of Laos, the Ghost Rider Aircraft 171 was severely damaged by North Vietnamese Army heavy weapon fire that wounded Capt. Shiver and killed a Special Forces Sergeant with the LRRP team being inserted. |
After October 1967 |
|
To Bell Helicopter Company, Fort Worth, TX. |
November 1967 |
|
Transferred to 355th Aviation Company, 4th Army, Fort Sill, OK. |
April 1968 |
|
To Bell Helicopter Company, Fort Worth, TX. |
May 1968 |
|
Transferred to 355th Aviation Company, 4th Army, Fort Sill, OK. |
July 1968 |
|
To OPM Southeast Asia NITEOPS, 1st Army, Fort Belvoir, VA. |
August 1968 |
|
Transferred to HHD, 44th Engineering Group, Korat RTAFB, Thailand. |
November 1968 |
|
Transferred to 572nd Military Intelligence Detachment, South Vietnam. |
December 1968 |
|
Transferred to 361st Aviation Company, South Vietnam. |
June 1969 |
|
Transferred to 52nd Aviation Battalion, BAT Kontum Province, II Corps, South Vietnam. |
July 1969 |
|
Transferred to 361st Aviation Company, South Vietnam. |
February 1970 |
|
Transferred to 604th Transportation Company, South Vietnam. |
May 1970 |
|
Transferred to 119th Aviation Company, South Vietnam. |
November 1970 |
|
Transferred to 129th Assault Helicopter Company, 10th Combat Aviation Battalion, South Vietnam. |
February 1971 |
|
Transferred to 79th Transportation Company, South Vietnam. |
April 1971 |
|
Transferred to U. S. Army Aviation Systems Command (AVSCOM) Flight Det., 5th Army, Saint. Louis, MO. |
May 1971 |
|
Transferred to Red River Army Depot, 4th Army, New Boston, TX. |
August 1971 |
|
To U. S. Army Transportation Aeronautical Depot Maintenance Center (ARADMAC), NAS Corpus Christi, TX. |
January 1972 |
|
To Bell Helicopter Company, Fort Worth, TX. |
April 1972 |
|
Transferred to U. S. Army National Guard. |
By October 1997 |
|
To Wisconsin National Guard Memorial Library and Museum, Volk Field ANGB, Camp Douglas, WI.
 View the Location Dossier |
3 May 2012 |
|
Cpt Eustice Shiver reports: I was reunited with 171 when I traveled to Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, from Milton, Florida, to see the aircraft I flew in Vietnam and the one I never stopped thinking about. |
22 July 2019 |
|
Photographer: Max Sabin
Notes: Taken at the Wisconsin NG Museum at Volk Field ANGB, Wisconsin |
22 July 2019 |
|
Photographer: Max Sabin |
