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    Airframe Family: Bell 47 / H-13 Sioux
    Latest Model:UH-13J-BF Sioux
    Last Military Serial:57-2729 USAF
    Construction Number:1576
    Compressed ID:Bell UH-13J-BF sn 57-2729 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a H-13J-BF.
    One of two UH-13Js purchased for use by President Eisenhower. Bell added two new features to the presidential H-13Js; all-metal rotor blades to increase the helicopters useful load, and special anti-glare tinting to the huge plexiglass nose bubble.

    20 February 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-2729.

    20 February 1957

    Transferred to Presidential Flight, National Airport, Washington, DC.

    13 July 1957

    President Eisenhower became first president to travel by helicopter.

    It routinely flew with Eisenhower and a Secret Service agent.

    1961

    Transferred to 1001st Helicopter Squadron, Bolling AFB, DC.
    Removed from presidential service and used to carry high-ranking Department of Defense personnel and numbers foreign dignitaries.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as UH-13J-BF.

    July 1967

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber Facility.

    2000

    Loaned to Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, NE.

    5 August 2002


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, NE

    2004

    Returned from loan to Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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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 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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