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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:LH-34D
    Last Military Serial:145717 USN
    Construction Number:58-0804
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky LH-34D sn 145717 USN cn 58...
    Latest Owner or Location:New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a HUS-1.

    1958

    Converted to a HUS-1L.
    Converted for Operation Deep Freeze before delivery to USN.

    19 March 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 145717.

    Circa April 1958

    Transferred to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 6 (VX-6), McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
    Operated with markings: JD-1, Gentile 1

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as LH-34D.

    1 January 1969

    Transferred to Antarctic Development Squadron 6 (VXE-6), McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
    Unit renamed.

    1970

    Transferred to Naval Air Rework Facility, NAS Quonset Point, RI.

    19 October 1973

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    October 1973

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    October 1973

    Loaned to New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.
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    10 October 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the New England Air Museum at Bradley International Airport
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