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    Airframe Family: Boeing-Sikorsky S-66 / H-66 Comanche
    Latest Model:YRAH-66A Comanche
    Last Military Serial:94-0327 US
    Construction Number:66-001
    Compressed ID:Boeing-Sikorsky YRAH-66A sn 94-0327...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Army Aviation Museum, Building 6008, Fort Rucker, AL

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    Dates

    Event

    26 May 1995

    Constructed as a YRAH-66A.
    Factory roll out, Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, CT

    4 January 1996

    First flight.
    At Sikorskys Development Flight Test Center, West Palm Beach, FL.

    1996

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 94-0327.

    1996

    To Army Aviation and Missile Research Laboratory.

    From 1996 to January 2002

    Primary planned role was for the RAH-66 to designate targets for the AH-64. Completed 318 flights over 387 hours before reaching the end of its testing career.

    30 January 2002

    Retired from test flying.

    2004

    To Army Aviation Command, Redstone Arsenal (Central), Huntsville, AL.
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    2004

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Storage, Guthrie AHP, Enterprise, AL.
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    By 7 July 2004

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, AL.
    Markings added: The Duke
    Placed on display.
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    22 December 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    22 December 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    By August 2007

    Assigned to United States Army Aviation Museum, Building 6008, Fort Rucker, AL for storage.

    From 2017 to After November 2020

    Placed on display.
    Returned to display.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     All the Worlds Rotorcraft
    Army Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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