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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-64 / H-54 Skycrane
    Latest Model:S-64F Skycrane
    Last Military Serial:69-18462 US
    Construction Number:64-067
    Last Civil Registration:I-CFAI
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky S-64F sn 69-18462 US cn 64...
    Latest Owner or Location:Corpo Forestale

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    Dates

    Event

    1969

    Constructed as a CH-54B.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 69-18462.

    Redesignated as S-64F.

    9 April 1993

    To Erickson Helicopters with new c/r N7028U.

    12 January 1995

    To Erickson Helicopters with new c/r N197AC.

    13 February 2001

    To Erickson Air-Crane Inc, Central Point, OR keeping c/r N197AC.

    22 July 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX197AC (S64F, 64067) issued.

    24 May 2006

    Civil registration, N197AC, cancelled.
    Exported to Italy.

    26 May 2006

    To Corpo Forestale with new c/r I-CFAI.
    Operated with markings: CFS-102

    24 September 2009


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Oristano, Sardinia, Italy

    31 May 2013


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At a training flight at Salerno, Italy
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