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    Airframe Family: Kaman H-2
    Latest Model:SH-2F Seasprite
    Last Military Serial:152201 USN
    Construction Number:185
    Last Civil Registration:N7096P
    Compressed ID:Kaman SH-2F sn 152201 USN cn 185 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:North Louisianna Military Museum, Ruston, Louisiana

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    Dates

    Event

    October 1960

    Constructed as a HU2K-1U.
    Date ordered

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as UH-2B.

    Circa 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 152201.

    By 1966

    Transferred to Combat Support Squadron 4 (HC-4), NAS Norfolk, VA.
    Operated with markings: HT-056

    1966

    With Detachment 84, HC-4, while deployed aboard USCG Icebreaker West Wind enroute Thule Air Base, Greenland, this was the first UH-2 to cross Arctic Circle.

    Circa 1967

    Converted to an UH-2C.

    Circa 1967

    Transferred to Combat Support Squadron 7 (HC-7), NAS Atsugi, Japan.

    By 1971

    Transferred to Combat Support Squadron 5 (HC-5), NS Agana, Guam.

    Circa 1975

    Converted to a SH-2F.

    From By June 1977 to After April 1988

    Transferred to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1), NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: JA-30

    By August 1991

    Transferred to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 30 (HSL-30), Lakehurst, NJ.
    Operated with markings: HT-042

    22 September 1993

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL with new c/r N7096P.

    1993

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    19 August 1999

    Civil registration, N7096P, cancelled.

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    By May 2008

    To Louisiana Museum of Military History, Ruston, LA.
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    To North Louisianna Military Museum, Ruston, LA.
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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
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    Helis.com
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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