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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-62 / H-52 / HU2S
    Latest Model:HH-52A Seaguard
    Last Military Serial:1455 USCG
    Construction Number:62-134
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky HH-52A sn 1455 USCG cn 62-...
    Latest Owner or Location:New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame, Teterboro Airport, Teterboro, New Jersey

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HH-52A.

    Circa 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 1455.

    By October 1969

    Transferred to Aviation Training Center, CGAS Mobile, AL.

    From May 1980 to October 1980

    Transferred to USCG Cutter Courageous.
    Protecting refugee vessels and supporting immigration control efforts during the Mariel, Cuba to Key West, Florida mass exodus. Was involved in saving nearly 30 Cuban refugees after their boat sank in the Straights of Florida.

    By 1986

    Transferred to CGAS Detroit, MI.

    27 July 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Dayton, OH, during the Dayton International Air Show and Trade Exposition

    By May 1994

    To New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame, Teterboro Airport, Teterboro, NJ.
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    From Unknown to 1 June 2012

    Restored.
    The restoration work was cosmetic.

    20 January 2009


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard at Teterboro Museum

    16 June 2012


    Photographer: Andrew King
    Notes: At the Teterboro Airport for Wings and Wheels

    16 June 2012


    Photographer: Andrew King
    Notes: As seen at the Teterboro Airport for Wings and Wheels 2012
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Andrew King
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