{"id":15,"date":"2006-02-13T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-02-28T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:28:58","slug":"a-mystery-solved-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"A Mystery Solved, I Think…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though it was not unexpected, I was disappointed that Hsinsher Open House yesterday did not have any flight demo.\u00a0 Luckily, I had an chance to get a very close look at UH-1H 424, a helicopter that seemed mysterious to me, until yesterday.<\/p>\n

It is well known that AIDC license-built 118 UH-1H from 1969 to 1976 (or 1977), their serial numbers from 301 to 418.\u00a0 But last year I saw UH-1H 424 at one of the open houses.\u00a0 So what is the deal?\u00a0 A little research showed that ROCA received seven UH-1H from ROCAF in 1985\/1986.\u00a0 So 424 could be one of the seven.\u00a0 But I need more proof.<\/p>\n

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\"UH-1H<\/div>\n

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At Hsinsher yesterday, UH-1H 386 (64-2086) and 424 (69-2124) were on display.\u00a0 One would think that 424 is the newer of the two.\u00a0 But is it?\u00a0 The aircraft identification plate of 424 shows that its original serial number is 69-16678, confirming that it is one of the nine UH-1H acquired by ROCAF in 1970 and one of the seven transferred to ROCA.\u00a0 So it is in fact older than 386.<\/p>\n

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\"Identification<\/div>\n

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But wasn’t 386 built in 1964 given its serial number 64-2086?\u00a0 Because it was built by AIDC, 64 does not mean “the year of 1964”, but “the 64th year of the Republic”, which is equivalent to 1975.\u00a0 (To get 1975, simply add 1911 to 64.)\u00a0 Its identification plate says that its Bell serial number is 18086, which comes after 424’s Bell serial number 17024.<\/p>\n

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\"Identification<\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, a mystery solved, I think…\u00a0 But the crew present were not interested in my discovery.\u00a0 I told them that, unlike 386,\u00a0424 was the original Bell work.\u00a0 Their response was that both helicopters had been overhauled by Air Asia.\u00a0 I bet they had no idea what I was talking about…<\/p>\n

And there is more.\u00a0 Although many military publications are correct in saying that the Hueys previously used by ROCAF\u00a0for SAR missions were built by Bell, they claim these helicopters are HH-1H.\u00a0 Now you know they are wrong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though it was not unexpected, I was disappointed that Hsinsher Open House yesterday did not have any flight demo.\u00a0 Luckily, I had an chance to get a very close look at UH-1H…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hh-1h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}