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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-65 / H-53
    Latest Model:CH-53A Sea Stallion
    Last Military Serial:153715 USMC
    Construction Number:65.101
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky CH-53A sn 153715 USMC cn 6...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CH-53A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 153715.
    Accepted on charge at Stratford, CT.

    20 September 1967

    Transferred to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 462 (HMH-462), MCAF, Santa Ana, CA.

    2 May 1968

    Transferred to Hamron 16 COSA, Da Nang, South Vietnam.

    3 June 1968

    Transferred to HMH-463, Marble Mountain, South Vietnam.

    Damaged by Vietnamese rocket attack at Marble Mountain.

    23 September 1969

    Transferred to Handms 56 COSA, Santa Ana, CA.

    16 July 1971

    Transferred to Handms 16 CRAA, Santa Ana, CA.

    14 October 1971

    Transferred to HMH-361, Santa Ana, CA.

    1 October 1974

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 2J0024.

    19 May 1980

    Transferred to Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC), Millington, TN.

    1 January 1982

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Marine Corps.

    April 1997

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    1 January 2013

    To Vintage Flying Museum, Fort Worth Meacham Airport/Meacham Field, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    24 November 2013

    To Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, TX.
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    23 July 2015


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Airport, TX

    19 August 2017


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, TX.

    26 April 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Fort Worth - Meacham Field, TX, USA

    29 November 2024


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2019/2020 by Andy Marden
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     National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Matt Maranto
    Sid Nanson
    Peter Nicholson
    Noah Rechtin
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