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Charlie Still Don't Surf! AH-1G References

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@centaur567

Would you be able to order these photos so as to know how the markings changed over time for Wretched Mildred?

Here she is without Centaurs or Chinese characters but the tail color doesn't seem to be different:
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Here the tail is replaced (different color) but no Centaurs or Chinese characters:
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...during the tail boom repair, no Centaurs, Chinese characters under cockpit, and shark mouth still on:
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Once the Chinese 蛇 appears for Snake, the shark mouth is not there.
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Starboard:
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Chinese characters and serial, no sharkmouth, Centaur is there and tail boom color is the same as the rest of the fuselage. Were the Centaurs on before this time (before tail boom repair) or only afterwards? Is this when the port one was female? Or was the port one always female?
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I used the bullet hole repair to identify this as the same time frame:
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Regards,
 
The tailboom color changed happened when the tail rotors were change over to the rt. side. Don't know when the centaurs were painted on., but they were all male till I changed the one on the lt. side to female. I kinda did it as a throwback to WWII pinups. The missing teeth (you can see where the teethe used to be. I think we were getting ready to repaint the mouth. I have pics of in progress teeth painting when maintenance drop 189 while undergoing a skid change. At that time I had just 3 wks. left in country and discharge. Gary S. LGB XLV MMXXIV
 
A camouflaged AH-1G with a Shark Mouth!
AH-1G 66-15273 AH-1G D Troop, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment
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It also looks like it has a replacement tail.

Regards,
 
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Welcome Ronny,

I am almost certain that it is the same aircraft as each sharkmouth (my nickname by the way) was slightly different and this is an excellent match. The photo was taken from one of John Brennan's books and only has that one image. I'll need to find which as I have all of them!

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Jon Bernstein has a book, Osprey Combat Aircraft 41 US Army AH-1 Cobra Units in Vietnam with a color profile of the same Cobra after it was renamed "Heather Dawn." I don't have the book but I can contact Jon directly.

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It looks like John Craig also repainted the sharkmouth.
Or someone read the serial wrong and has the incorrect profile. I am sending an e-mail out to Jon as my curiosity is piqued. His book doesn't have a photo of Heather Dawn.
 
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