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Description
| Manufacturer: | Sikorsky | |
| Base model: | H-34 | |
| Designation: | VCH-34 | |
| Version: | A | |
| Nickname: | Choctaw | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1948-Present | |
| Basic role: | Helicopter | |
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Specifications
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Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| United States Army Aviation Museum | Ozark | Alabama |
VCH-34A on display
United States Army Aviation Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Oscar Johnson Jr. CW-3 Ret. Acworth, GA | This is the same Helicopter that was Vice President Hubert H. Humprey's in Minnesota. I was in the Vice Presidential flight detachment from 1966-1968 when I retired.We had two of these VCH-34A's. 07/16/2008 @ 10:12 [ref: 22153] |
| Robert Enterprise, AL | Jonathan, you are correct about the time frame of the retirement of the VH-34. However, President Ford did fly in Army One. When the transition to the VH-3 happened the Army still supported them. My father worked at Davidson Army Airfield at Ft. Belvoir VA from 1977 to 1979. He said the mission of flying the president around was given to the Marines just before he got there. He thinks it happened somewhere around '76 or early '77.
President Ford was probably the only president that flew in both Army One and Marine One. 09/27/2007 @ 13:26 [ref: 18033] |
| Jonathan Hayes Hermitage, TN | I don't think Gerald Ford ever used "Army One," as it is sometimes known.
I do know that it was used by both Eisenhower and Kennedy. (JFK used it during a visit to Nashville in May of 1963.) "Army One" was supposedly retired soon after JFK's assassination, and the CH-34 fleet was grounded years before Ford became president. Ford most like flew aboard "Marine One," a Sikorsky H-3 Sea King, which is still in use today. 02/16/2006 @ 14:17 [ref: 12520] |
| Jonathan Hayes Hermitage, TN | I don't think Gerald Ford ever used "Army One," as it is sometimes known.
I do know that it was used by both Eisenhower and Kennedy. (JFK used it during a visit to Nashville in May of 1963.) "Army One" was supposedly retired soon after JFK's assassination, and the CH-34 fleet was grounded years before Ford became president. Ford most like flew aboard "Marine One," a Sikorsky H-3 Sea King, which is still in use today. 02/16/2006 @ 14:16 [ref: 12519] |
| Mike , AL | This exact model displayed at the Army Aviation museum was the presidential transport for President Gerald Ford. 06/07/2005 @ 15:33 [ref: 10428] |
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