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    Airframe Family: Bell 206 / H-57 Sea Ranger / H-58 Jet Ranger / 407 / 417
    Latest Model:OH-58A Kiowa
    Last Military Serial:72-21290 US
    Construction Number:41956
    Last Civil Registration:N552MC
    Compressed ID:Bell OH-58A sn 72-21290 US cn 41956...
    Latest Owner or Location:Big Tows Inc, Chestnut Ridge, NY

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an OH-58A.

    Circa 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 72-21290.

    17 March 1997

    To Morgan County Sheriff Department, Decatur, AL with new c/r N552MC.

    17 March 1997

    Based with Morgan County Sheriff Department, Decatur, AL.

    By July 2005

    Transferred to Iowa Army National Guard, Waterloo, IA.

    1 July 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed from second floor of control tower at Cedar Rapids, IA

    1 July 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    18 June 2013

    Civil registration, N552MC, cancelled.

    28 April 2022

    To Big Tows Inc, Chestnut Ridge, NY with new c/r N552MC.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airliners.Net
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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