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    Airframe Family: Kaman H-2
    Latest Model:HH-2D Seasprite
    Last Military Serial:149031 USN
    Construction Number:35
    Compressed ID:Kaman HH-2D sn 149031 USN cn 35
    Latest Owner or Location:American Helicopter Museum, Brandywine Airport, West Chester, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UH-2A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 149031.

    Transferred to HC-2, USS Kitty Hawk.

    Converted to a HH-2C.

    Transferred to HSL-30 Detachment Alfa.

    Converted to a HH-2D.

    Transferred to HSL-31 Detachment Bravo.
    In Det Bravo, assigned to Ocenaographic Units aboard USNS Chauvenet (T-AGS 29) and USNS Harkness (T-AGS 32). In HSL-31 carried official callsign Copyright 14 and unofficial (but only one used) callsign Shaka 14.


    Photographer: Barry Sinclair
    Notes: Hooking up cargo load on the deck of the USNS Harkness T-AGS 32 during hydrographic survey operations in Indonesia, late 1986.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    August 1998

    Placed on display with American Helicopter Museum, Brandywine Airport, West Chester, PA.
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    9 October 2013


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
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