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    Airframe Family: Piasecki H-25/HUP Retriever
    Latest Model:UH-25C Retriever
    Last Military Serial:147607 USN
    Construction Number:39
    Last Civil Registration:N4953S
    Compressed ID:Piasecki UH-25C sn 147607 USN cn 39...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-25A.
    Ordered by USAF but delivered to the Army

    30 November 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 51-16610.

    April 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147607 as a HUP-3.

    Transferred to Overhaul (and) Repair Facility, NAS Norfolk, VA.

    Transferred to Helicopter Squadron 2 (HU-2), NAS Lakehurst, NJ.

    From 1961 to 1962

    Attached to Squadron Detachments, it Operated from the Aircraft Carriers Forrestal (CVA 59), Lake Champlain (CVS) 39, Saratoga (CVA 60), and Randolph (CVS-15).

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as UH-25C.

    Circa November 1962

    Assigned to Naval Air Facility (NAF), Litchfield Park, AZ for storage.

    21 March 1963

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    To Glen Hyde, Roanoke, TX with new c/r N4953S (HUP-3, 147607).

    February 1988

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By November 1989

    Restored.

    3 September 1993

    To unknown owner with c/r N4953S (HUP-3, 147607).
    Sale reported to a new owner in Pensacola, FL.

    27 March 2011


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

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 December 2012

    Civil registration, N4953S, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Pensacola, FL.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airliners.Net
    Ariganello.com by Adam Ariganello
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Helis.com
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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