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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:SH-34J Seabat
    Last Military Serial:148936 USN
    Construction Number:58-1311
    Last Civil Registration:N90768
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky SH-34J sn 148936 USN cn 58...
    Latest Owner or Location:Red River Rescue, Denison, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HSS-1N.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148936.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as SH-34J.

    Transferred to the USAF.

    Transferred to AFRES, 304th Rescue Squadron, Portland IAP.

    28 March 1974

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number HD0193.

    28 March 1974

    To World Aircraft Museum Inc, Calhoun, GA with new c/r N90768.

    4 September 1981

    To World Aircraft Museum Inc, Calhoun, GE keeping c/r N90768.

    From Unknown to By May 2009

    To World Aircraft Museum, Mercer Field, Calhoun, GA.
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    26 May 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    22 January 1998

    Civil registration, N90768, cancelled.

    10 February 2005


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Calhoun - Mercer Field, GA. USA whilst with the (now closed) World Aircraft Museum.

    By 10 March 2008

    The disassembly of the airframe was initiated at Mercier Field.

    By June 2008

    The disassembly and removal of the airframe was completed.

    Circa June 2008

    To Red River Rescue, Denison, TX.
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    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Helis.com
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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