Did you know about the fight to save this historic aircraft from being shredded?

Capt, why would they want to get rid of these aircrafts if it's not costing them anything other than space to keep them around?

No I didn't. This seems very interesting. Thanks for sharing Capt Seid Waddell.

Any time a military aircraft is retired a part of history potentially dies. We maintain 'historical' records of every aircraft that follow the birds their entire life cycle. I retired a Huey from Vietnam and the historicals were as thick as a phone book annotating all the BDA (Battle damage) that had been repaired. As we removed the engine, I noticed a temporary patch that never made it into the historicals. It was a patch made from a Budweiser can (common field expedient repair). I read the historicals finding repair after repair, tour after tour. When we stripped her down to nothing and they carted her away, we were all lined up dress right dress and order arms. We had an old OH-58 A/C scout driver as a Platoon Leader who was in tears. He was in country at the same time as the Huey. Thanks for sharing and taking me back down memory lane Capt Seid Waddell !