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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky R-4 Hoverfly / R-6 / HNS / HOS
    Latest Model:R-4B Hoverfly
    Last Military Serial:43-46521 USAAF
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky R-4B sn 43-46521 USAAF
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Army, Fort Belvoir, VA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R-4B.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-46521.

    By 1987

    Placed on display with United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, AL.

    29 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at USArmy Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, AL

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    By October 2006

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Storage, Guthrie AHP, Enterprise, AL.
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    To National Museum of the United States Army, Fort Belvoir, VA.

    5 February 2019

    Placed on display.
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