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    Airframe Family: Boeing-Vertol V-301 / H-62
    Latest Model:XCH-62
    Last Military Serial:73-22012 US
    Compressed ID:Boeing-Vertol XCH-62 sn 73-22012 US...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    1974

    Constructed as a XCH-62.
    Only partly constructed before contract was cancelled.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 73-22012.

    October 1974

    While a serial number was assigned, the aircraft was not taken on strength, since the Army cancelled the contract. Incomplete aircraft was stored at Vertol in Pennsylvania.

    1983

    NASA and DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) plans were initiated to resume a Heavy Lift Research Vehicle [HLRV] test program, with a possible first flight in 1985, but was cancelled again. (JBaugher).

    1987

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


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Mock-up of YHC-62A

    29 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 October 2005

    Scrapped.
    To make way for additional museum car parking.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
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