Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is a Vietnam War era United States Helicopter Flight Helmet type APH-5A Helmet manufactured by the Gentex Corporation in size medium. The helmet is in overall excellent complete condition with the liner, headset, boom mic, and clear visor. The earcups are partially detached from the sides and cracking is present.
This is a rare Vietnam era original rare helicopter helmet in wonderful complete condition!
The US Army introduced their first flying helmet, the APH-5A or APH-5 Quartermaster helmet, from around 1959. It was an adapted version of the US Navy Aircrew Protective Helmet no. 5 (APH-5). The change was mainly in the communications system as the US Army used the same impedance standard as the US Air Force. With the introduction of the APH-5A the number of head injuries incurred during US Army aircraft accidents was reduced by half compared to the number of head injuries incurred before helmets were used.
The early examples of the APH-5A had the same thick foam rubber edge roll as the US Navy APH-5 and usually came in white color. Later examples had thin black rubber edge beading and usually came in olive drab color. A ballistic version, the Antifragmentation Flight Helmet No. 1 (AFH-1), was introduced in the late 1960s (NSN assigned 18 December 1967).
The US Army was not satisfied with the APH-5A and the AFH-1 because their noise attenuation and retention capabilities were too poor. Therefore they were replaced by the Sound Protective Helmet No. 4 (SPH-4) from 1970.
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