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    Airframe Family: Piasecki H-25/HUP Retriever
    Latest Model:UH-25C Retriever
    Last Military Serial:147600 USN
    Construction Number:36
    Compressed ID:Piasecki UH-25C sn 147600 USN cn 36...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-25A.
    Ordered by the USAF but delivered to Army

    1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 51-16607.

    26 April 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147600 as a HUP-3.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as UH-25C.

    10 October 1963

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    SOC at NAF Litchfield, AZ.

    From By 1977 to After October 1989

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By 1990

    Loaned to Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    30 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By 1996

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 69, UR

    17 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    24 September 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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    Military Aviation Review
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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