A Huey helicopter from the Vietnam era has completed its tour of Ames, Boone and Carroll areas. Tom Arentz is one of the crew members on the helicopter that was restored by a group called Friends of Army Aviation.

Arentz and his fellow crew members gave flights out of the Ames, Boone and Carroll airports over the past week. Arentz says the first Huey flew in 1956.

The Friends of Army Aviation, which is based in Alabama, has restored two Hueys. The Patriot Peak Foundation sponsored the helicopter’s flights in Iowa from September 3rd through the 10th. Aretz says they fly with the doors open, not to scare the passengers who spend 85 dollars on tickets for the ride, but to give them insight into the way the Hueys were used in war.