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    Airframe Family: Bell 204/205/208/208/212/214/412/553 / UH-1 Iroquois
    Latest Model:UH-1H Iroquois
    Last Military Serial:68-16215 US
    Construction Number:10874
    Compressed ID:Bell UH-1H sn 68-16215 US cn 10874
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Classics Museum, Aurora Municipal Airport, Sugar Grove, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UH-1H.

    September 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 68-16215.

    September 1969

    Transferred to HHD, 44th Engineer Group, Thailand.

    From October 1969 to December 1969

    Transferred to A Company, 101st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, South Vietnam.

    From January 1970 to April 1971

    Transferred to 2nd Squadron, 17th Air Calvary, 101st Air Calvary Division, South Vietnam.

    From May 1971 to July 1971

    Transferred to Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, TX.

    From August 1971 to December 1971

    Transferred to Army Aeronautical Depot Maintenance Center, NAS Corpus Christi, TX.
    In maintenance.

    From January 1972 to July 1972

    Loaned to Bell Helicopter, Fort Worth, TX.
    Bailment.

    From August 1972 to February 1974

    Transferred to 10th Aviation Battalion, Fort Lewis, WA.

    March 1974

    Transferred to Army Aeronautical Depot Maintenance Center, NAS Corpus Christi, TX.

    From April 1974 to October 1974

    Transferred to 10th Aviation Battalion, Fort Lewis, WA.

    From November 1974 to December 1974

    Transferred to HHC 11th Aviation Battalion, Germany.

    From January 1975 to April 1975

    Transferred to 10th Aviation Battalion, Fort Lewis, WA.

    From May 1975 to December 1975

    Transferred to 116th Aviation Company, Fort Lewis, WA.

    August 1995

    To Air Classics Museum, Dupage Airport, West Chicago, IL.

    18 August 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago

    1996

    To Air Classics Museum, Aurora Municipal Airport, Sugar Grove, IL.
    View the Location Dossier

    30 September 2000


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL airport main ramp; original location of Air Classics at Aurora

    26 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At current location, west side of Aurora Airport

    26 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At current location, west side of Aurora Airport

    By 29 July 2011


    Photographer: Robert Burger
    Credits
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     A/101 Aviation AHC/AHB/Regt, 101st Airborne Division First and Finest by Richard A. Bittle Comanchero Door-Gunner
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Robert Burger
    Glenn Chatfield
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