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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:HH-34J Seabat
    Last Military Serial:148943 USN
    Construction Number:58-1327
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky HH-34J sn 148943 USN cn 58...
    Latest Owner or Location:March Field Air Museum, March ARB, Riverside, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SH-34J.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148943.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force.

    Converted to a HH-34J.

    Transferred to 304th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, Portland, OR.

    4 February 1974

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    12 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 148943 - HH-34J Choctaw - USAF - 302SOS, Luke AFB - Transferred from the US Navy to Air Force and operating with the 302nd SOS at Luke.

    By 1990

    Loaned to Hill Aerospace Museum, Roy, Ogden, UT.
    Noted at Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill AFB, UT.
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    11 September 2013

    Loaned to March Field Air Museum, March ARB, Riverside, CA.
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