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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-62 / H-52 / HU2S
    Latest Model:HH-52A Seaguard
    Last Military Serial:1459 USCG
    Construction Number:62-138
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky HH-52A sn 1459 USCG cn 62-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hangar One Foundation, NAS Glenview (formerly), Chicago, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HH-52A.

    Circa 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 1459.

    From 30 October 1968 to 8 September 1970

    Transferred to Aviation Training Center, CGAS Mobile, AL.

    By 1982

    Transferred to CGAS Chicago, IL.

    12 June 1982


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Displayed at Chicago Midway Airport during open house

    10 September 1985


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed from the DuPage Airport Control Tower, West Chicago, IL

    1989

    To Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL.
    Joe Coffey comments (17 August 2017): I assisted rolling airframe into Museum of Sci and Ind in ceremony when TAD at USCG MSO Chicago.
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    By 2013

    To Hangar One Foundation, NAS Glenview (formerly), Chicago, IL.
    Stored.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Foundation for Coast Guard History
    United States Coast Guard
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Joe Coffey
    Mike Henniger
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