by Steve Mackenzie

RAAF UH-1B 'Huey' helicopter A2-1022 sits in the ammunition dump at Vung Tau following a crash caused by engine failure shortly after take-off. It was repaired using a spare USAF UH-1C tail boom.

As noted above the airframe was repaired using a UH-1C tail plane obtained from the USAF. It retained this slightly longer boom thru-out it's ADF service.

b=RAAF UH-1B 'Huey' helicopter A2-1022 sits in the ammunition dump at Vung Tau following a crash caused by engine failure shortly after take-off. The engine failure, due to grass being ingested through the engine's air inlets, was one of a spate that occurred around this time. Photo:AWM P04976.001.
c=RAAF Iroquois helicopter A2-1022, from No 9 Squadron made a forced landing on 11 May 1967, in a supply point about 500 yards from the squadron's helipad at Vung Tau. The pilot O317046 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Edward Frederick (Ted) Munday, of Fairlight, NSW, had little control of the aircraft as it plummeted earthwards, but managed to get it down without any injury to the crew. Photo:AWM VN/67/0050/05.
d=The crew was A32932 Corporal (Cpl) William Rex (Bill) Harrington, of West Ryde, NSW, crewman and gunner; A223382 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Thomas Barry (Tom) Farr, of Bathurst, NSW, crewman and gunner. Photo:VN/67/0050/11.
e-g=A series of images that I sourced from the net somewhere showing the repairs underway inside the Sqn's hangar. Photos:internet.

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