UH-1C Slicks?

I'm yet to find a single photo of a Slick/Medevac C model, Were they ever used in this role...?

Not many.  The C was designed as a gunship.  There weeer some early Bs used in the above roles, but the D came quickly on their heels and took those roles over.

Cairnsy,

  The Uh-1C was, as Gino mentioned, manufactured as an interim gunship to replace the UH-1B before the AH-1G was fielded.  They were built from 1965-1967 and around 770 were built for the US Army.  By the time the UH-1C arrived, the UH-1D was the preferred medivac due to it's larger cabin.  The only "slick" uh-1C's operated by the US Army that I am familiar with were some fo the trainers at Ft. Rucker and perhaps some of the Army Aviation Test Board aircraft.  As it happens, I am building a UH-1C Ft. Rucker trainer.  Here are a couple of pics of the original and my progress on the build.  I hope that helps with your question.  As for UH-1C medivacs, I have looked at well over 30,000 images of Hueys and never seen one, but I never say never!

     Ray

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My current build:

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Ditto on what everyone else has said so far. I flew the last active-duty C/M model to the boneyard in the late 80's. It was stationed at Huntsville and used as a test bird. I really enjoyed that last flight and was sorry to see her go. She still had a lot of the original bullet hole patches on her from her days in Vietnam.

Charlie

Ray, your build is coming along nicely. Can not wait to see more. You ought to do a WIP thread on it. I found and ordered a 1/72nd Revell Ch-54 and 1/48th O-1 Bird Dog today from Old Model Kits.Com. I could go broke buying many of the models I would love to have from that place.

Charlie

Charlie,

  Thanks for the compliment, I have a WIP thread over at ARC, but I'd be happy to put one here too.  

Cairnsy,

  So you want UH-1C slicks, huh?  Well here's about all I could find out of MANY photos.  As I mentioned before trainers or test birds are your best bet, but I did find this apparent Vietnam photo which i suspect shows a bird that hasn't been armed yet.  No other reason for a UH-1C without teeth in country!

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Here are some of the Army Aviation Test Board aircraft I mentioned earlier:

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Another test bird:

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Finally, one for which I have no info, but it ain't armed so here ya go:

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Hope you see something you like there.

   Ray