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    Airframe Family: Bell 209 / AH-1 Cobra
    Latest Model:AH-1J Sea Cobra
    Last Military Serial:157771 USMC
    Construction Number:26015
    Compressed ID:Bell AH-1J sn 157771 USMC cn 26015
    Latest Owner or Location:Prairie Aviation Museum, Bloomington Normal Airport, Bloomington, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    1970

    Constructed as an AH-1J.

    31 August 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 157771.
    TOS USMC at US Army Area Command, Fort Worth, TX.

    4 September 1970

    Transferred to Research Development Test, MCAS New River, NC.

    14 January 1971

    Transferred to US Army Area Command, Fort Worth, TX.

    24 May 1971

    Transferred to Marine Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 (HMA-269), MCAS New River, NC.

    13 August 1971

    Transferred to Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 26 (H and MS-26) MCAS New River, NC.

    10 December 1971

    Transferred to HMA-269, MCAS New River, NC.

    6 May 1975

    Transferred to HMA-261, MCAS New River, NC.

    14 June 1975

    To HMA-269, MCAS New River, NC.

    16 December 1976

    Transferred to HMA-461, New River, NC.

    4 March 1977

    Transferred to HMA-269, MCAS New River, NC.

    27 April 1977

    Transferred to HMA-461, New River, NC.

    1 June 1977

    Transferred to HMA-269, MCAS New River, NC.

    22 April 1978

    Transferred to HMA-169, MCAS Camp Pendleton, CA.

    9 March 1979

    Transferred to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 (HMM-262), MCAS Kaneohe, HI.

    13 September 1979

    Transferred to HMA-169, MCAS Camp Pendleton, CA.

    4 October 1979

    Transferred to HMA-369, MCAS Camp Pendleton, CA.

    6 June 1980

    Transferred to Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC), Millington, TN.

    28 December 1982

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Marine Corps.

    December 1994

    To Prairie Aviation Museum, Bloomington Normal Airport, Bloomington, IL.
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    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     Glenn Chatfield
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