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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:HSS-1 Seabat
    Last Military Serial:140122 USN
    Construction Number:58-0166
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky HSS-1 sn 140122 USN cn 58-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Minter Field Air Museum, Minter Field, Shafter, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HSS-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 140122.

    1962

    Converted.

    31 March 1967

    Transferred to VNAF.
    Operated with markings: RT

    19 September 1969

    Assigned to Davis Monthan for storage.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number HD0019.

    23 March 1977

    To Moore Aviation, Tulare, CA.

    1991

    Cannibalized.

    To Minter Field Air Museum, Minter Field, Shafter, CA.
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    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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