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    Airframe Family: Bell 47 / H-13 Sioux
    Latest Model:47D-1
    Last Military Serial:128900 USN
    Construction Number:0263
    Last Civil Registration:N5167V
    Compressed ID:Bell 47D-1 sn 128900 USN cn 0263 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lan-Dale Co, Reno, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HTL-4.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 128900.
    Operated as a trainer with the Navy.

    Transferred to NAS Alameda, CA.

    Transported by ship.
    Moved from Alameda to a US Naval base in Japan.

    Floats were installed and flown a few times in Japan.

    Transported by ship.
    Moved from Japan back to NAS Alameda.

    Transferred to NAS Alameda, CA.

    1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    To San Bernadino Valley Junior College-Aeronautical Division.
    Used as a training aid.

    1972

    To Pathfinder Helicopters/Adrian Grieve, Flabob Airport, Riverside, CA.

    Converted to a 47D-1.

    Assigned civil registration: N5167V

    Used for student training, aerial photography, surveying, banner towing, fruit frost control.

    Used in the filming of the television series M.A.S.H.

    20 August 1982

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5167V (47D1, 263) issued.

    9 August 1989

    To Southwest Helicopters Inc, Tucson, AR keeping c/r N5167V.

    2 June 1995

    To Lan Dale Co, Reno, NV keeping c/r N5167V.

    Based at Reno Stead Airport, Reno, NV.
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    16 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races.

    5 August 2011

    To Lan-Dale Co, Reno, NV keeping c/r N5167V.

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races.

    23 July 2018


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At 2018 AirVenture, Oshkosh, WI
    Credits
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Mike Henniger
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