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150611, 150613 and 150617 July 23 2012 at 9:44 PM		Jodie Peeler (Login N5528N) HyperScale Forums from IP address 67.142.179.21
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According to Joe Baugher's website those three VH-3As (originally designated HSS-2Z) were operated in Army markings, while the others wore the Marines' markings. Oddly enough, even the Army-assigned VH-3s wore Navy bureau numbers. I can definitely confirm 150611 wore Army markings because it's the VH-3 that took President Johnson from Andrews AFB to the White House the night of Nov. 22, 1963; as a result you see it a lot in photos and footage from Johnson's brief address that night at Andrews, and in some photos you can make out that number. 150611, incidentally, is now at the Reagan Library parked next to SAM 27000. 150617 is at the Nixon Library and Museum, and it's famous for being the VH-3 that Nixon left the White House aboard on August 9, 1974. Sometime during the Johnson administration the VH-3As shifted to the first iteration of the VH-3 markings still used today, with "United States of America" on the aft fuselage instead of the specific service markings. IIRC, the Army bowed out in 1976 and the Presidential VH-3s became the province of the Marine Corps. To bring this back to models, I have a Hasegawa SH-3 squirreled away for conversion to a VH-3A in the original Army markings, with the Military District of Washington insignia and everything else. It's something you don't see ever day, that's for sure! Jodie Peeler

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