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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-65 / H-53
    Latest Model:NCH-53A Sea Stallion
    Last Military Serial:152399 USN
    Construction Number:65-026
    Last Civil Registration:N39
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky NCH-53A sn 152399 USN cn 6...
    Latest Owner or Location:Combat Air Museum, Forbes AFB, Topeka, Kansas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CH-53A.

    1 March 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 152399.

    1 June 1966

    Transferred to NATC Patuxent River.

    2 June 1966

    Redesignated as JCH-53A.

    7 October 1966

    Redesignated as CH-53A.

    4 June 1967

    Transferred to NPRO RT, Stratford, CT.

    30 June 1967


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy

    11 July 1967

    Transferred to NATC Patuxent River.

    17 July 1968

    Transferred to HMH-461, New River.

    18 July 1968

    Transferred to HMH-361, New River.

    10 July 1969

    Transferred to HMH-461, New River.

    11 January 1971

    Transferred to HMS 26, New River.

    16 April 1971

    Transferred to HMH-461, New River.

    17 May 1971

    Transferred to MARTD Lakehurst.

    20 October 1972

    Transferred to MARTD Willow Grove.

    12 February 1973

    Transferred to NPRO REP, Stratford, CT.

    26 July 1973

    Transferred to NASA.

    9 December 1975

    Redesignated as NCH-53A.

    29 June 1978

    To Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Admin, Atlantic City, NJ with new c/r N39.

    12 May 1981

    Transferred to FAA.

    5 October 1983

    Civil registration, N39, cancelled.
    Cancelled.

    12 October 1983

    Transferred to NARF Pensacola.

    14 June 1984

    Transferred to NADC Warminster RDTE.

    To Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Admin, Atlantic City, NJ with new c/r N39 (CH-53A, 65026).

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Loaned to Combat Air Museum, Forbes AFB, Topeka, KS.
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    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: Combat Air Museum. At Topeka Regional Airport / Forbes Field

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: Combat Air Museum. At Topeka Regional Airport / Forbes Field

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: Combat Air Museum. At Topeka Regional Airport / Forbes Field

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: Combat Air Museum. At Topeka Regional Airport / Forbes Field
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