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    Airframe Family: Hiller H-32 Hornet
    Latest Model:XHOE-1 Hornet
    Last Military Serial:138652 USN
    Construction Number:5
    Compressed ID:Hiller XHOE-1 sn 138652 USN cn 5
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a XHOE-1.
    The second HOE-1 to be completed

    27 December 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 138652.

    From 27 December 1955 to March 1957

    Transferred to U. S. Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Completed only 28.5 hours of flight testing in this time.

    Circa 1957

    To Smithsonian National Air Museum, Washington, DC.

    By August 1989

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber Facility, Silver Hill, MD.
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    10 June 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Paul Garber Restoration Facility, Suiteland, MD

    By 2005

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    Markings Applied: FT


    Photographer: Unknown Contributor
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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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     Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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