1968 to 2015


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US Army Aviation

357th AvnDet Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe







SHAPE US Army Aviation

US Army flight detachment allocated to VIP transport for Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the central command of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) military forces. Created in 1951 in Rocquencourt France relocated to Casteau, near Mons Belgium since 1967. Since 2003 controls all NATO operations worldwide.




1967, I was one of five Warrant Officers and a Major who established this unit in Belgium. Our CO was Major Dave Larcombe. Besides myself,, the other WO's were Bob Cronin, Tom Newman, Al Brown, and Jerry Langsford. It was great duty. Our original designation was SHAPE Army Flight Detachment. The 357th designation came later. Our primary duty was to support general Lyman Lemnitzer. As long as we kept Lem happy, the army left us alone. Lem outranked every general in NATO.




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357th AvnDet List of helicopters


C/N VersionBuiltIn this Org In other Org
12767 uh-1h 70-16462 : 70-16462 was the last huey I crewed before I made E-6. It was transferred +
70-1088 uh-60a 87-24583 : US Army; 1994 357thAvnDet.; 1998 SHAPE
: US Army; 2003 SHAPE; Mar08 pictured at Brussels, Belgium
: at Cambridge
: 2011 SHAPE
70-1090 uh-60a 87-24584 : US Army; 1998 SHAPE; 2003 SHAPE; 2011 SHAPE
: SHAPE, visited Farnborough 20 - 22 Jul 1999.
: at Cambridge
Scrapped mh-60l 91-26363 : arrived at McEntire JNGB, Eastover, South Carolina. It's is bad shape, app+







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