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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:UH-34D Seahorse
    Last Military Serial:147171 USN
    Construction Number:58-1087
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky UH-34D sn 147171 USN cn 58...
    Latest Owner or Location:Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, South Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HUS-1.

    8 June 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 147171.
    Accepted on charge at East Hartford, CT.

    15 June 1959

    Transferred to HMRL-162, MCAS New River.

    27 November 1959

    Transferred to HMRL-262, MCAS New River.

    17 August 1961

    Overhauled at Jacskonville, FL.

    20 February 1962

    Transferred to HMM-264, Aboard USS Thetis Bay.

    20 August 1962

    Transferred to HMM-262, NAS Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    3 October 1962

    Transferred to SUB 2. HMM-262, Aboard USS Shadwell.

    November 1962

    Redesignated as UH-34D.

    30 October 1963

    Transferred to HMM-265, MCAS New River.

    20 April 1964

    Overhauled at Jacksonville.

    16 September 1965

    Transferred to HMM-162, MCAS New River.

    28 September 1967

    Transferred to HMM-264, Camp Garcia.

    6 December 1967

    Transferred to SUB 1. HMM-264, MCAS New River.

    12 January 1968

    Transferred to HMM-264, Camp Garcia.

    1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147171.

    27 January 1968

    Transferred to HT-8, NAS Ellyson Field.

    22 July 1968

    Assigned to Davis Monthan for storage.

    18 October 1968

    Overhaul at NARF Pensacola.

    17 June 1969

    Transferred to NARTU Norfolk.

    5 July 1969

    Transferred to MARTD Willow Grove.

    18 July 1969

    Transferred to NARTU Norfolk.

    1 March 1970

    Transferred to MARTD Norfolk.

    9 August 1971

    Transferred to NAS Glynco.

    Circa 1971

    Markings Applied: 123, 4B

    1 August 1972

    Transferred to NARF Pensacola.

    3 August 1972

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    September 1987

    Placed on display with Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, SC.
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    August 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    August 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    August 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    12 May 2010


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    1 May 2016


    Photographer: Graham Tanner
    Notes: Taken at USS Yorktown, Patriots Point, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.
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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 2016 by Andy Marden
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Sid Nanson
    Robert Nichols
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