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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:H-19A Chickasaw
    Last Military Serial:130156 USN
    Construction Number:55-0213
    Last Civil Registration:C-GMFY
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky H-19A sn 130156 USN cn 55-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Northwest Helicopters, Olympia Heliport, Olympia, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-19A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 130156.

    To H and S Leasing Inc, Seattle, WA with new c/r N15186.

    5 January 1976

    To H and S Leasing Inc, Seattle, WA keeping c/r N15186.

    21 July 1980

    Civil registration, N15186, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    From 23 July 1980 to 21 September 1988

    To M F Air Services, Langley, BC with new c/r C-GMFY (S55b, 55213).

    To Northwest Helicopters, Olympia Heliport, Olympia, WA.
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    6 July 2006


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: HRS-1, ex Bu.130156 - outside, near the premises of North West Helicopters at Olympia, WA
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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