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    Airframe Family: Bell 209 / AH-1 Cobra
    Latest Model:TAH-1G Cobra
    Last Military Serial:66-15249 US
    Compressed ID:Bell TAH-1G sn 66-15249 US
    Latest Owner or Location:American Legion Post 255, Croswell, Michigan

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    Event

    Constructed as an AH-1G.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 66-15249.

    Transferred to 503rd Avn BN in Hanau, West Germany.

    Transferred to Vietnam.

    Converted to a TAH-1G.

    Transferred to Fort Rucker.

    To American Legion Post 255, Croswell, MI.
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    Timothy Hollister comments (11 November 2018): This was one of the aircraft I was assigned during my aviation career. I am CW3 Timothy L. Hollister (RET). At the time I was assigned this aircraft I was the Quality Control Officer and one of the Maintenance Test Pilots in the 503rd Avn Bn in Hanau, West Germany. CW2 Fisher, I am happy to report she was still flying in 1984 with over 10,000 hours as an AH-1S(FMC). I poured through the historical records of this aircraft and it spend time in Viet Nam as an AH1G, Fort Rucker as a TH-1G, and in West Germany as a Fully Modernized. I have stopped by Croswell, MI and seen my old friend. Next time up there, I will get a few photos.

    31 October 1976


    Photographer: CW2 Frank Fisher
    Notes: TH-1G 66-15249 before Mod S conversion. CW2 Fisher on the step Taken with Yashica on tripod. At the time was oldest flying Cobra in Army inventory. Taken at GRFGray AAF
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