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    Airframe Family: Kaman H-2
    Latest Model:SH-2F Seasprite
    Last Military Serial:150181 USN
    Construction Number:131
    Last Civil Registration:N8064F
    Compressed ID:Kaman SH-2F sn 150181 USN cn 131 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    After October 1960

    Constructed as a HU2K-1U.
    Ordered for production this date.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as UH-2B.

    1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 150181.

    From 14 March 1964 to 5 June 1967

    Loaned to USMC, MCAS Beaufort, SC.
    On loan from the Navy for Base Flight and SAR duties.

    1967

    Returned from loan to U. S. Navy.

    Circa 1975

    Converted to a SH-2F.

    From Circa 3 July 1975 to After December 1984

    Transferred to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Light Squadron 37 (HSL-37), NAS, Barbers Point, Hawaii,.
    Operated with markings: TH-53

    By October 1986

    Transferred to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 31 (HSL-31), NAS North Island, CA.

    3 April 1995

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL with new c/r N8064F.

    1995

    Assigned to National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, FL for storage.
    In 2006 the museums name changed to National Naval Aviation Museum.

    By 2005

    Loaned to USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
    View the Location Dossier

    4 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Battleship Alabama Memorail

    1 February 2013

    Civil registration, N8064F, cancelled.

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    4 November 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    The Aircraft of the World, edited by, copyright by William Green
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    Helis.com
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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