Helmet ID help

[Trim for speed]

Hi all,

 

I've taken my first forray into owning a piece of militaria, if you don't count my 1945 M1 rifle... I found this Prk37 helmet with pretty plain taping. It does not have mask receivers or a boom mic. So I don't think it fits the hgu47 archetype. Does anyone have an idea of what it is?

 

I bought some mask receivers and plan to add them and make this a project if the helmet is nothing super special.

[phantomfixer]

The deltas remind me of air combat maneuvering symbols as seen on the ACM screens…

 

odd that it has no receivers or boom mount.. no pigtails for the comm either..

cool looking helmet

 

 

[Bodes]

Luke Skywalker wannabe or movie prop type helmet perhaps.....Bodes

 

 

[AMT500E]

With the Solas tape job,..maybe Marines.

Could also have been used for SAR training

[phantomfixer]

29 minutes ago, AMT500E said:

With the Solas tape job,..maybe Marines.

Could also have been used for SAR training

Was thinking dunk booth … it’s a quandary 

[amateuraero]

The PRK-37/P helmet shell assy. appears to be in the configuration of the HGU-47(v)4/P as used with the Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft.  Not all crew positions used a boom microphone and oxygen mask receivers.  Possibly used by aircrew other than the Patrol Plane Commander and pilots.  The arrows in red tape could indicate the location of the aircrew face in case their face was faced down in the water.  Arrows on USN flight helmet for this purpose began during the late 1940s or early 1950s on the hard shell helmets.  The helmet has a 1980 contract date on the shell.  There may be a date on the stickers underneath the front of the visor housing and on the clear visor.  If the tall black visor lock knob and black hardware are original, then the helmet could have seen use into the late 1980s-mid 1990s.  As for a squadron, I would try VP-30 first.  See if there is any information written on the white styrofoam liner also.  97427 is the Gentex mfr. code.  92114 would be Scott mfr.  vpnavy.org  website could be of help.

 

[amateuraero]

The communications cable would be the CX-4832A/AR without an amplifier.  The earphones would be the H-87B/U with a tapered back and silver colored front with round holes.  Later earphone elements had three small rivets on the silver front.  The PRK-40/P white styrofoam liner may have a plastic/vinyl tag on it that might be located underneath the neck area black leather/foam rear fitting pad.  The original black plastic ear cups and black vinyl earseals should be marked Gentex or Scott and would not have small holes on the top and bottom for small diameter paracord.  The earseals would have a bump on the bottom.  The PRK-37/P helmet was issued in sizes medium and large.  An XL was available by special order and would use the size large single visor assy. and an XL two piece styrofoam liner.  PRK-37/P issued as quarter helmets-shell, liner, visor assy., and communications from what I have heard as with the

USAF HGU-22/P shell assy.  Also, the original ear cup black foam was glued together (2pcs) around three sides with an opening on the rear facing side for the earphone element installation/removal.  Also had Veltex fabric in black glued to the front foam piece.

 

 

[hink441]

Are there any holes on the left side of the helmet where a boom mic would have been installed?