[High-Tech/Vehicles] Rugged, Simple SAR/Medevac Helicopters

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Icelander

Thank you, I'll check that.

Meanwhile, does anyone have any idea whether UH-1 Hueys, in Army, Air Force, Coast Guard (perhaps most likely) or Navy (second most likely) service were ever used for maritime operations, SAR at sea, carrier landings, staging from USCG cutters, etc.?

http://www.nhahistoricalsociety.org/...opter-history/

There, with a handy wall poster that shows no Hueys in Coast Guard service.

I know Hueys landed on Navy ships occaisionally but the picture in my memory is from a Huey doing that during the evacuation of the US Embassy in Saigon in 1975. After the last flight out at least one of those Hueys got pushed over the side because that carrier had no place to put it.

The link above is the result of agoogle search for helicopter coast guard history. I bet if you substitute navy for coast guard you can get amatching one.