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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:H-19D Chickasaw
    Last Military Serial:55-3187 US
    Construction Number:55-0913
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky H-19D sn 55-3187 US cn 55-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Heliservices, Falcon Field, Phoenix, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-19D.

    8 December 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 55-3187.

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number XB065.

    To Memorial Airport, Chandler, AZ.
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    To Wingspan Air Muesum, Mesa, AZ.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Heliservices, Falcon Field, Phoenix, AZ.
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    29 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Chandler Memorial, AZ.

    October 2005


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Sikorsky UH-19D Chickasaw 55-3187 stored at Chandler Memorial Airport, AZ. The fenced compound in the back ground housed another 50+ UH19s - all stored for Vertical Aviation Technologies Ltd of Sanford, FL

    10 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    10 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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