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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:UH-34D Seahorse
    Last Military Serial:150227 USN
    Construction Number:58-1585
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky UH-34D sn 150227 USN cn 58...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HUS-1.

    Circa 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 150227.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as UH-34D.

    By November 1964

    Transferred to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 (HMM-261), MCAS New River, NC.
    Operated with markings: EM-1

    15 November 1964

    Deployed aboard USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7).

    From 1965 to 1966

    Deployed to South Vietnam operating from three stations and USS Valley Forge.

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    From December 1970 to December 1971

    Transferred to NAS Meridian, MS.
    Used at the station SAR.

    By 1973

    Transferred to Naval Air Rework Facility, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    1973

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    11 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    After 11 November 1990

    Markings Applied: VX-6, 25, XO-657
    Painted orange to represent HUS-1L Bu.No. 144657, named King Pin II. It was one of four HUS-1Ls modified for operations in Antartica. King Pin II set a record by flying non-stop from Little America to McMurdo Sound. The 450-mile trip took five hours on 7 December 1957.

    By November 1998

    Markings Applied: YL42, 144657
    Marked as HUS-1 144657, YL42, representing the Ugly Angels of HMM-362, the first Marine helicopter squadron to deploy to Vietnam, 15 April 1962.

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    7 November 2003

    7 November 2003


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Blue Angels Homecoming, NAS Pensacola FL

    7 November 2003

    7 November 2003


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Blue Angels Homecoming, NAS Pensacola FL

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 November 2014

    Robert Bourlier comments (May 2015): As currently displayed, the markings represent the Ugly Angels of HMM-362, the first Marine helicopter squadron to deploy to Vietnam, 15 April 1962.

    8 November 2014


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: NAS Pensacola, FL.
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