[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A good question should be, “Will there be a commercial production Huey based on the military models?”

There was a very successful commercial production Jeep and Humvee, so why not a Huey?

Its selling points would be that it would be “factory simple”, without a lot of the bells and whistles of most commercial helicopters, with perhaps a more efficient engine. There are lots of Huey models, with all sorts of mods, and Bell might be receptive to a low end production line.

[TalonDJ]

No need to make more. They are still modernizing and reselling existing ones.

[archy]

A good question should be, “Will there be a commercial production Huey based on the military models?”

There was a very successful commercial production Jeep and Humvee, so why not a Huey?

Do a websearch for *Bell 205*. I dealt a little with Bell 205-A models back in the late 1970s.

As of about 14 months ago, the DEA was still using Huey UH1-H models, including some in Afghanistan used for DEA FAST counternarcotics teams trying to slow the Afghan/Taliban opium poppy trade.