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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-61 / H-3 / Sea King
    Latest Model:HH-3F Pelican
    Last Military Serial:1485 USCG
    Construction Number:61-662
    Last Civil Registration:N485KM
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky HH-3F sn 1485 USCG cn 61-6...
    Latest Owner or Location:Carson Helicopters, Perkasie Helliport, Perkasie, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HH-3F.

    1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 1485.

    From 28 July 1972 to 10 July 1973

    Transferred to CGAS Annette Island, AK.

    From Circa 1980 to After October 1991

    Transferred to CGAS San Francisco, CA.

    5 January 1994

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 440042.

    10 July 1995

    To Kenosha Military Museum, Pleasant Prairie, WI with new c/r N485KM.
    Museum moved south into Illinois and became Russell Military Museum.

    22 May 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed from the street since museum was closed. Rainy day

    By October 2007

    To Russell Military Museum, Russell, IL.
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    16 August 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    20 May 2015

    Civil registration, N485KM, cancelled.

    After November 2015

    To Carson Helicopters, Perkasie Helliport, Perkasie, PA.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Coast Guard Aircraft Since 1916 by Arthur Pearcy
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Helis.com
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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