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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-64 / H-54 Skycrane
    Latest Model:CH-54B Tarhe
    Last Military Serial:69-18467 US
    Construction Number:64-074
    Last Civil Registration:N718HT
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky CH-54B sn 69-18467 US cn 6...
    Latest Owner or Location:Corvallis Municipal Airport (CVO), Corvallis, Oregon

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    Dates

    Event

    1969

    Constructed as a CH-54B.

    September 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 69-18467.

    From 18 March 1972 to 15 January 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 539.
    Assigned Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

    15 January 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 69-18467.

    15 January 1974

    Transferred to Fort Eustis, VA.

    By September 1983

    Transferred to 208th Aviation Company, Connecticut National Guard, Windsor Locks, CT.

    11 June 1992


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Windsor Locks, CT Bradley Field

    18 September 1992

    To Ken Guthrie, Cougar, WA.

    April 1993

    To Ken Guthrie, Cougar, WA with new c/r N467KG.

    14 September 1994

    To Bluebird Helicopters, Cougar, WA keeping c/r N467KG.

    Damaged.
    Substantially damaged.

    14 April 2000

    To Helicopter Transport Services Inc, Corvallis, OR keeping c/r N467KG.

    7 May 2001

    To U S Leaseco Inc, Baltimore, MD keeping c/r N467KG.

    7 May 2001

    To U S Leaseco Inc, Baltimore, MD with new c/r N718HT.

    3 June 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR718HT (CH-54B, 64074) issued.

    6 February 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR718HT (CH-54B, 64074) issued.

    20 October 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR718HT (CH-54, 64-074) issued.

    17 November 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR718HT (CH-54, 69-18467) issued.

    3 February 2016

    To U S Leaseco Inc, Aurora, OR keeping c/r N718HT.

    Based at Corvallis Municipal Airport (CVO), Corvallis, OR.
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    5 August 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Black Hills Airport (Clyde Ice Field), Spearfish, South Dakota

    3 August 2019


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Taken at the Helena, Montana airport.


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    1000 Aircraft Photos (Aeroplane Photo Supply) by Ron Dupas and Johan Visschedijk
    AB Pic
    CH 54 Skycrane Association
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield

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