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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-61 / H-3 / Sea King
    Latest Model:SH-3G Sea King
    Last Military Serial:735 NASA
    Construction Number:61-140
    Last Civil Registration:N723AW
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky SH-3G sn 735 NASA cn 61-14...
    Latest Owner or Location:US Department of State, Patrick AFB, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HSS-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 149723.

    Converted to a SH-3G.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 933.
    Based at Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), later as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC), Ellington Field, TX.

    From 21 July 1970 to 1 November 1977

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 538.
    Based at NASA, Langley Research Center, Langley Field, VA.

    23 September 1970

    Civil registration, N933NS, cancelled.

    From 9 November 1977 to 27 July 1993

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 735.
    Based a tNASA Ames Research Center, NAS Moffett Field, CA.

    6 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: N735NA - SH-3A Sea King - NASA - Moffett Field / NASA Ames Research Center

    27 July 1993

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 9H0043.

    To Carson Helicopters, Perkasie Helliport, Perkasie, PA.
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    1 May 2005


    Photographer: RedRipper 24
    Notes: At the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC),Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

    4 August 2010

    To US Department of State, Patrick AFB, FL with new c/r N723AW.

    13 March 2017

    Civil registration, N723AW, cancelled.

    29 April 2017


    Photographer: Paulo Abadesso


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