{"id":2323670,"date":"2026-06-19T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/air-america-huey-shoots-down-an-2-colt-ak-47-1968\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:20:17","slug":"air-america-huey-shoots-down-an-2-colt-ak-47-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/air-america-huey-shoots-down-an-2-colt-ak-47-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"The CIA Huey That Shot Down a Biplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<p>High above the misty jungle mountains of Laos, an unarmed supply helicopter found itself in the middle of an air raid. Its crew had a choice: flee, or fight back with the only weapon on board &mdash; a single AK-47 rifle. They chose to fight. What happened next has never happened before or since.<\/p>\n<p>On January 12, 1968, a Central Intelligence Agency helicopter shot down an enemy airplane. It remains the only time in history a helicopter has been credited with destroying a fixed-wing aircraft in air combat.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:8px;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#1565c0\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 12, 1968, over the mountains of northern Laos<\/li><li><strong>The target:<\/strong> Lima Site 85 &mdash; a secret U.S. radar station atop the 5,800-ft Phou Pha Thi, guiding bombers over North Vietnam<\/li><li><strong>The attackers:<\/strong> four North Vietnamese An-2 &ldquo;Colt&rdquo; biplanes, modified to drop mortar rounds and fire rockets<\/li><li><strong>The crew:<\/strong> Capt. Ted Moore&rsquo;s Air America (CIA) UH-1 Huey, with flight mechanic Glenn Woods<\/li><li><strong>The record:<\/strong> the only confirmed helicopter kill of a fixed-wing aircraft &mdash; and the CIA&rsquo;s only air-to-air victory<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Secret Mountain<\/h2>\n<p>The prize was a mountaintop called Phou Pha Thi, in the trackless highlands of northern Laos. On its summit sat Lima Site 85, a covert U.S. radar installation that guided American bombers toward targets deep inside North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese wanted it gone &mdash; and they reached for an unlikely weapon. Four Antonov An-2 &ldquo;Colt&rdquo; biplanes, slow fabric-and-wire machines straight out of the 1940s, were crudely modified to rain mortar rounds and rockets down on the site.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1506626877  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:jYSa.c089\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/air-america-huey-an-2-painting.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of the Air America Huey engaging an An-2 Colt over Laos\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A painting of the moment: an Air America Huey closes on a North Vietnamese An-2 over the jungles of Laos, January 1968. (Image: U.S. Government \/ public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">An Unfair Fight, Reversed<\/h2>\n<p>Into this scene flew Captain Ted Moore, an Air America pilot ferrying ammunition to the site in a UH-1 Huey. Air America was the CIA&rsquo;s secret airline, and its crews flew into places no one would admit existed. Spotting the attack, Moore realised his helicopter was actually faster than the lumbering biplanes. He gave chase.<\/p>\n<p>Pulling his Huey above one of the Colts, Moore used his own rotor downwash to stall the biplane&rsquo;s upper wing, forcing it to wallow and slow. In the open doorway, flight mechanic Glenn Woods levelled his AK-47 and opened fire straight down into the aircraft. The Colt grew more and more unstable until it rolled over and smashed into the jungle below. Of the four raiders, two were lost that day.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=911875863  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:jYSa.c089\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/antonov-an-2-colt-biplane.jpg\" alt=\"An Antonov An-2 Colt biplane\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Antonov An-2 &ldquo;Colt&rdquo; &#8211; a rugged single-engine biplane, here in museum condition. Modified versions tried to bomb Lima Site 85. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons \/ CC BY-SA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was, in the words of those who study these things, an air combat first: a slow propeller biplane brought down not by a fighter, but by a transport helicopter and a man with an infantry rifle.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1717040348  decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:qj6l.c08a\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/uh-1-huey-open-doors.jpg\" alt=\"A UH-1 Huey in flight with its doors open\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">From a Huey&rsquo;s open door, like this one, Glenn Woods fired the burst that ended the dogfight. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Kill Like No Other<\/h2>\n<p>The engagement earned a permanent, peculiar place in aviation history &mdash; the sole confirmed helicopter-versus-fixed-wing victory ever recorded, and the only aerial kill ever credited to the CIA. There is a tragic coda: just weeks later, in March 1968, Lima Site 85 was overrun in a North Vietnamese ground assault, with heavy loss of life among the Americans defending the radar the biplanes had failed to destroy.<\/p>\n<p>But on that January morning, against every expectation, a supply helicopter and a borrowed rifle won a dogfight.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_XMO7SMvNeA\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:center;margin:2em 0\"><blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZFez6nFHuI\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZFez6nFHuI\/\" target=\"_blank\">View this post on Instagram<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic\">Sources: Central Intelligence Agency; War History Online; The Aviation Geek Club; GunsAmerica.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wild-weasels-first-in-last-out-sead-vietnam-ygbsm\/\">Wild Weasels: First In, Last Out<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/bob-lodge-f4-phantom-medal-of-honor-vietnam-classified\/\">Bob Lodge Chose Death Over Capture<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High above the misty jungle mountains of Laos, an unarmed supply helicopter found itself in the middle of an air raid. Its crew had a choice: flee, or fight back with the only weapon on board &mdash; a single AK-47 rifle. They chose to fight. What happened next has never happened before or since. 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