Northern California Chapter of Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association

In March 1996, helicopter pilots from the Northern California area who flew in Vietnam during the Vietnam war founded the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association – California Chapter North (VHPA-CCN) under the auspices of the national VHPA organization, headquarters in Citrus Heights, California.

        Chapter membership is open to helicopter pilots from any branch of the service who flew a helicopter in the southeast Asia theater during the period 1961 to 1975.
       The VHPA is organized as a 501(c)3 non-profit veterans’ organization with no political agenda. The primary goal of the VHPA is to rekindle and foster the spirit of duty, honor, country, sacrifice, and esprit de corps that was so much a part of the Vietnam experience for helicopter aircrews.
         The VHPA has a membership of over 11,000 helicopter pilots from around the world. In addition to an annual reunion held during the 4th of July Holiday, members keep in touch informally through local Chapter meetings, mini reunions (local get-togethers) and through the Internet links at: VHFCN (http://www.vhfcn.org) and Heli-Vets (http://www.helivets.net). The VHPA maintains a web site at (http://www.vhpa.org).

	Please use the membership application form to submit address changes for the directory and use the comments form to submit other directory changes and update.
	There were 2,208 helicopter pilots and 2,698 non-pilot crewmembers killed in the Vietnam War from all services including Air America. May they rest in peace. You are not forgotten.