Delaware National Guard First Blackhawk to overhaul By Sgt. Scott Boeckelmann, Det. 1, 832nd Medical Co. (Air Ambulance)  The aircraft known as 001 was the first of the UH-60A's to leave for overhaul. The UH-60A is ready for loading. With the coming of the new aircraft is also the scheduling of shipping them back out. When an aircraft meets the limits of it’s flying hours, it will be sent to a depot level maintenance facility to undergo what is called a re-fit or overhaul. In this case, the aircraft known as 001 was the first of the UH-60A in Delaware to leave it’s new home for overhaul. In the past, members of the Army Aviation Support Facility would fly (Ferry) the UH-1 Hueys to Corpus Christi Texas to undergo an overhaul. At that point, they would switch aircraft and ferry a different Huey, which has just gone through overhaul back to Delaware. The UH-1 overhaul program has not been in existence for around 15 years now. The reason being is that the Army started down sizing it’s UH-1 fleet and is concentrating its efforts on newer airframes. In the case of this recent overhaul, the aircraft 001 was not able to fly to Texas. It’s flying hours along with maintenance related problems prevented it from being flown to Depot. Instead, it was loaded on a flatbed trailer and driven to it’s destination. The replacement for this Blackhawk was flown in from FT. Hood Texas and has been an active aircraft since it’s arrival 2 months ago .

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