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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-64 / H-54 Skycrane
    Latest Model:S-64E Skycrane
    Last Military Serial:67-18420 US
    Construction Number:64-022
    Last Civil Registration:N243AC
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky S-64E sn 67-18420 US cn 64...
    Latest Owner or Location:Helicopter Express Llc, Chamblee, GA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CH-54A.

    August 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 67-18420.

    August 1967

    Transferred to The 273rd Aviation Company (Heavy Helicopter), Vietnam.
    Unit named Superhooks.

    Transferred to 273rd Assault Support Helicopter Company, Vietnam.
    Unit designation changed.

    Circa 1968

    Transferred to 478th Heavy Helicopter Company, 1st Cavalry Division, South Vietnam.
    Unit named Hurricanes.

    Circa 1970

    Transferred to 62nd Corps Aviation Company, Marble Mountain Army Airfield, Da Nang, South Vietnam.
    Unit named Royal Coachmen.

    1973

    Transferred to 85th Infantry Division (Training) (USAR), 5th Army, Chicago, IL.

    1973

    Aircraft Loaned to NASA at Langley AFB, VA.

    By 1981

    Transferred to 478th Aviation Company (Heavy), Fort Benning, GA.

    By July 1982

    Transferred to Pennsylvania Army National Guard.

    24 July 1982


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Dayton, OH air show

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    8 April 1994

    To Lenair Corporation, Hubbard, OR.

    27 June 1994

    Assigned civil registration: N22696

    23 January 1997

    To Columbia Helicopters, Aurora, OR with new c/r N544CH.

    2 December 2002

    To Erickson Air-Crane Inc, Central Point, OR keeping c/r N544CH.

    10 January 2003

    To Erickson Inc, Medford, OR with new c/r N243AC.

    1 December 2004

    To Erickson Air-Crane Inc, Central Point, OR with new c/r N544CH.

    Remanufactured as a S-64E.

    26 October 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for N243AC (S64E, 64022) issued.

    28 November 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for N243AC (S64E, 64022) issued.

    Operated as fire service #HT-3AC.

    6 April 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Based at Jandakot and Serpentine Airports in Western Australia for the 2013/2014 Fire Season

    10 June 2014

    To Erickson Inc, Central Point, OR keeping c/r N243AC.

    4 November 2015


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: N243AC at Victoria, BC, Canada on 4Nov15

    28 May 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX243AC (S64E, 64022) issued.

    27 September 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX243AC (S64E, 64022) issued.

    7 November 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX243AC (S64E, 64022) issued.

    19 January 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX243AC (S64E, 64022) issued.

    1 February 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for N243AC (S64E, 64022) issued.

    15 February 2018

    To Erickson Inc, Medford, OR keeping c/r N243AC.

    9 March 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX243AC (S64E, 64022) issued.

    31 August 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX243AC (S64E, 64022) issued.

    24 October 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX243AC (S-64E, 64022) issued.

    21 November 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for N243AC (S-64E, 64022) issued.

    2 May 2024

    To Helicopter Express Llc, Chamblee, GA keeping c/r N243AC.
    Credits
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    Internet Sources
     Aviation Western Australia
    California News Feed
    CH 54 Skycrane Association
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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