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    Airframe Family: Bell 68 / X-14
    Latest Model:X-14B
    Last Military Serial:243 NASA
    Last Civil Registration:N704NA
    Compressed ID:Bell X-14B sn 243 NASA cr N704NA
    Latest Owner or Location:Ropkey Armor Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1956

    Constructed as a X-14.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 56-4022.

    1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 243.

    1962

    Redesignated as X-14A.

    17 July 1969

    To National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, CA with new c/r N704NA.

    1971

    Converted to a X-14B.

    18 November 1981

    Civil registration, N704NA, cancelled.

    By June 1990

    Markings Applied: NASA, 704

    By June 1990

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, AL.
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    29 June 1990

    At Museum storage area.
    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    29 June 1990

    At Museum storage area.
    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By 1996

    To Ropkey Armor Museum, Indianapolis, IN.
    Not spotted here in 2013 but reported on site and waiting assembly.
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    8 August 2011


    Photographer: Roger Janssens

    July 2013


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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