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Description
| Notes: Longer wing than the OV-1A with addition of SIDE-LOOKING radar. Formerly designated AO-1B (2 CREW) . | ||
| Manufacturer: | Grumman | |
| Base model: | V-1 | |
| Designation: | OV-1 | |
| Version: | B | |
| Nickname: | Mohawk | |
| Equivalent to: | AO-1B | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1956-Present | |
| Basic role: | V/STOL | |
| Modified Mission: | Observation | |
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Specifications
| Length: | 43' 11" | 13.3 m | |
| Height: | 13' 0" | 3.9 m | |
| Wingspan: | 48' | 14.6 m | |
| Wingarea: | 360.0 sq ft | 33.4 sq m | |
| Empty Weight: | 10,983 lb | 4,980 kg | |
| Gross Weight: | 13,654 lb | 6,192 kg | |
| Max Weight: | 16,643 lb | 7,547 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 2 | ||
| Powerplant: | Lycoming T53-L-7 | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 1150 | ||
Performance
| Cruise Speed: | 230 mph | 370 km/h | 200 kt |
| Max Speed: | 290 mph | 466 km/h | 251 kt |
| Climb: | 2,800 ft/min | 853 m/min | |
| Ceiling: | 29,500 ft | 8,991 m | |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| American Wings Air Museum | St. Paul | Minnesota |
| United States Army Aviation Museum | Ozark | Alabama |
OV-1B on display
United States Army Aviation Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Paul Reed Mariposa, CA | Helped to form the first Mohawk unit in Korea: at the 55th Avn Co, K-16 in 63-64. Flew right seat until my boss at G2, 8th Army found out what I was really doing out at the airfield. Have had a long time love affair with the ugly old beast and finally flew several at the AWAM in MN, after I got a pilots license and a multi license. WAs the Executive Director of the OV-1 Mohawk Assn for 5.5 years. If you haven't joined the assn, why not? We get together once a year and drink beer and tell lies: this fall in Portland, Oregon. 06/18/2008 @ 08:25 [ref: 21545] |
| Chuck Davis Linden,, NC | I would like to get Mr Don Lewis's Email address in Mathis TX, he is the Salior that wrote the article about the Mohawk's in the Philippines, I am the Davis he talks about in the article.
Myself and SP-6 Buffington was assigned to the 4Th ASTA in route to VietNam to join up with the 23Rd SWAD to form the 73Rd Aviation Company (AS)at Vung Tau Vietnam. I was the first Mohawk line chief in the 73Rd in Vietnam. I was the first American assigned to the right seat in the OV-1A model gunship and SP-6 Buffington was the second American assigned to fly right seat in the A models after the US Army decided to get the Vietnamese observers out of the Units. We could not have completed our maintenance mission there in the Philippines without the help of the navy crew's and the support from the Silver King's Bingo crew. I still have the Silver Kings patch they gave me. We Still have Mohawk reunions and still love the Mohawk so much I just got my first RC 57 Inch wing model of it and it was made in of all places Vietnam. Many Thanks for your help on getting me Don's Emailthis Charles L. Davis US ARMY Sergeant Major Retired Didcld@aol.com Charles.Davis@amedd.army.mil 04/21/2008 @ 15:21 [ref: 20647] |
| Tom Crouch Temecula, CA | Fortunate to fly in OV-1A, B, and C models as an observer/low-level navigator based on Yoido, K-16, from May '65 to Oct '66. Flew SLAR missions along the DMZ at 10,000 and 14,000 feet scores of times. Visual low-level navigated to 'targets' such as bridges, power substations, and temples, to pop up from low-level to take stereo photos for practice. Some pilots flew at 200 feet above ground in the semi-flat areas, and some flew at 20 feet (Capt. Freeman comes to mind). Amazing Fairchild camera in the belly of the Mohawk. Could take up to 6 frames per second, 4.5-inch negatives, with the film moving to match image movement, if you dialed in the correct height and ground speed. It was a real adrenaline rush flying low. The nearest thing I can do now, at age 66, is go on the Soaring Over California ride at California Adventure at Disneyland. 02/14/2008 @ 15:12 [ref: 19678] |
| Tom Crouch Temecula, CA | Fortunate to fly in OV-1A, B, and C models as an observer/low-level navigator based on Yoido, K-16, from May '65 to Oct '66. Flew SLAR missions along the DMZ at 10,000 and 14,000 feet scores of times. Visual low-level navigated to 'targets' such as bridges, power substations, and temples, to pop up from low-level to take stereo photos for practice. Some pilots flew at 200 feet above ground in the semi-flat areas, and some flew at 20 feet (Capt. Freeman comes to mind). Amazing Fairchild camera in the belly of the Mohawk. Could take up to 6 frames per second, 4.5-inch negatives, with the film moving to match image movement, if you dialed in the correct height and ground speed. It was a real adrenaline rush flying low. The nearest thing I can do now, at age 66, is go on the Soaring Over California ride at California Adventure at Disneyland. 02/14/2008 @ 14:54 [ref: 19677] |
| marshall potter clayton, NC | i FLEW AS A TECH-OBSERVER IN 1968 IN PHU HEIP SOUTH VIETNAM AND WAS TRULY AMAZED AT THE AIRCRAFTS POTENTIAL IN THE RECON-WORLD. IT WAS TRULY UNIQUE IN THE FIELD OF AVIATION AND EVERYONE THAT I FLEW WITH LOVED THE AIRCRAFT. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS PROVEN THAT IT COULD NOT FLY ON PAPER, I AM GLAD THE NAVY GAVE IT UP. WE CALLED IT THE DRAGON-FLY. AT LOW LEVEL ALTITUDE, AND THE SPEED IT COULD ATTAIN, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE UNTIL IT WAS GONE. A POWER HOUSE IF IT WAS A OV-1D WITH ALL THE AMENITIES INCLUDING FIRE POWER. NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND WHY THE ARMY NEVER OUTFITTED ALL THE SHIPS WITH MACHINE GUNS FOR PROTECTION. GUESS IT HAD TO BE AS WEIGHTLESS AS POSSIBLE. aWSOME AIRCRAFT NEVER THE LESS. 01/14/2008 @ 11:42 [ref: 19291] |
| Clark Wilson CW4 USA (Ret.) , AZ | I flew the OV-1B with the 6th AVN Plt.,55th AVn Co. at K-16 Korea 1973-74. 11/23/2007 @ 10:08 [ref: 18643] |
| don lewis mathis, TX | A few of us sailors were on a detachment in the Phillippines in 1964 and met a couple of soldiers boys named Davis and Buggington that had brought 10 of the A & B's over for duty in Soc Tran I believe. We had nothing to do and they had no tools so we pitched in and helped them ( talk about boredom) get the aircraft ready for light. I did manage to get about 10 hours of flight time in them doing after check test flights.Appeared to be a good aircraft. I was amused by one of their stories they told us about putting live granades in Skippy Peanut Butter jars and dropping them out of the liason chute to bomb with. They finally ran out of the jars and ordered case after case of more only to recieve a pallet load of JIFF peanut butter.Those jars wouldn't work. True story or not? I have no idea but sounds pausable. 02/02/2007 @ 05:34 [ref: 15383] |
| siegfried macie cleburne, TX | I can remember when my dad CW-4 Melville Macie US ARM(ret.) flew the mohawk while we were stationed in Hanau Germany 70-74. I loved the aircraft then and still admire it now, my dad to this day cherishes his time flying this aircraft. If you want to get his attention just say "Mohawk" he smiles, he had an ejection in Vietnam,(69?)and was maintainance chief and test jock. Really would like to see more of them around for people like him, dad has retired and now lives in Killeen Tex, with my mom, his wife of 48 years. they have a Mohawk on base( Ft Hood) with his name on it.
Tom (Siegfried) Macie 01/22/2006 @ 01:13 [ref: 12228] |
| jeff , GA | Check out the Army Aviation Heritage foundation at http://www.armyav.org.
We have the only flying OV-1B in the world and it has been beautifully restored. 09/27/2001 @ 07:58 [ref: 3274] |
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