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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-3/U-1/CSR-123 Otter
    Latest Model:NU-1B Otter
    Last Military Serial:144672 USN
    Construction Number:160
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada NU-1B sn 144672...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-1.

    24 October 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 144672.

    October 1956

    Transferred to Air Development Squadron 6 (VX-6), NAS Quonset Point, RI.
    Operated with markings: JD-12

    Circa October 1956

    Transported by ship.
    Transferred to the Antarctic by sea on the USS Wyandot and was unloaded at the Ellsworth Station in the Weddell Sea area.

    Circa January 1957

    Transferred to Air Development Squadron 6 (VX-6), McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

    3 February 1957

    First flight in Antarctica.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as U-1B.

    1966

    Transported by ship.
    Transported back to NAS Quonset Point, RI.

    1966

    Transferred to Naval Air Rework Facility, NAS Quonset Point, RI.
    Refurbished.

    1966

    Transferred to Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    1966

    Redesignated as NU-1B.

    September 1971

    Transferred to Naval Air Test Facility, NAS Lakehurst, NJ.
    Operated with markings: NATF-3

    November 1973

    Transferred to Naval Aerospace Recovery Facility, NAS El Centro, CA.

    August 1974

    Transferred to Training Air Wing 6 (TAW-6), NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: F-699

    November 1974

    Transferred to Pacific Missile Range, Point Mugu, CA.

    April 1975

    Transferred to Training Air Wing 6 (TAW-6), NAS Pensacola, FL.

    September 1975

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    September 1975

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    November 1977


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At NAS Pensacola

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    11 January 2024

    Placed on display with Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, NC.
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Matt Maranto
    Noah Rechtin
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