Chopper rehab: VFW’s Huey gets fresh paint job
Published 12:05 am Tuesday, November 5, 2019
The Huey will soon get stenciled markings and details to complete the restoration. Jon C. Lakey/Salisbury Post
Tyler Hester puts the finished touches on the helicopter paint job Monday afternoon. Jon C. Lakey/Salisbury Post
The VFW post received the Vietnam War era military vehicle in 2002, Jon C. Lakey/Salisbury Post
Tyler Hester painst the UH-1 'Huey' helicopter outside the Hudson-Miller-Tatum Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3006 on Brenner Avenue on Monday afternoon. Jon C. Lakey/Salisbury Post
Pete Branblett, owner of The Best Paint Co. of Rockwell, was driving past Hudson-Miller-Tatum Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3006 on Brenner Avenue recently and noticed that the UH-1 Huey helicopter out front was in need of a paint job.
So he offered to paint the chopper free of charge.
The job took 2 gallons of black paint and 5 gallons of olive drab green paint.
The VFW post plans
to have markings and details stenciled on to complete the restoration.
