Blackhawk with black paint scheme?

On the way Gino.

Here’s the link to my photos at Armorama

http://www.armorama.com/modules/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=6667

I believe the US Customs UH-60A’s are now armed at least with the M-60 window guns and also Special ops AC-130’s are also flat black as well and as far as I know so are the AH-6 Littlebirds used by Delta Force and what color is the Marine1 presidential helicopter is it Flat black or dark Blue and white?

Oh and I forgot I have the UH-60L blackhawk and plan on using Testors Model Master Faded Olive Drab would this be a even more accurate color to use since Army Blackhawks are constantly out in the elements and subject to fading paint due to contact with sunlight.

Best paint to use is Model Master US Army Helo Drab. The actual paint used on the aircraft is pretty tough and doesn’t fade that much. I think the faded OD is way too light. OD is too light in its regular form. I wouldn’t go any lighter than the Helo Drab.

Actually, AC-130’s are not painted black rather the same two-toned gray scheme that our HC-130’s and MC-130’s are sporting. Has pretty much been AFSOC and AF CSAR standard for a while now. Check out these pics taken back in 2001.

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/201-300/walk208_AC-130H/part2/walk208b.htm

Actually, Marine One is a two-tone scheme of glossy dark green and gloss white.

AC-130A/Es in Vietnam were black on the sides and undersides, but the tops were standard SEA colors of two greens and tan. After Vietnam they were repainted overall FS36118 and in the 90s they received the two-tone AFSOC scheme Sal linked to. To my knowledge, only the first AC-130U wore a European 1 scheme, and that too was soon replaced by the AFSOC scheme.

And the Little Birds belong not to Delta, but to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (along with MH-6s, MH-60L/K and MH-47). All Little Birds and MH-60Ls are faded black. I think most of the MH-47s and MH-60Ks are too; however, gray, Helo Drab or even desert tan Kilo and/or Chinooks pop up from time to time. There was a thread a while back about gray Nightstalkers along with links to a pic on airiners.net of a Kilo and Chinook sitting on the ramp in Knoxville from 2003. Sal once told me about a couple of MH-47s that he saw in Nevada a few years back that were overpainted in desert tan (I think it was temp paint that came off real easy).

I live in the Washington DC area (Alexandria, VA) and Customs UH-60s based out of Reagan National Airport are always flying low-level patrols up and down the Potomac river.

There is Black and White scheme for Blackhawk helicopter. I don’t know if it’s Marine One scheme, but it looks close. On this photo I made in DC 2 weeks ago it has white top. Photo is not good at all but the top is white and it’s not ICE.
I was trying to figure it out - to which US department this one belongs to make the comment right. And still has no idea. May be it’s a spare Marine one :slight_smile:
http://www.washingtondc.ru/photos/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=6

Alex7,
The helo in your picture is a VH-60, Marine One bird. But it is not black/white. The upper surface area is white, the darker color below is a very dark green. Here is an example:

Thank you very much. [:)]