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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:HO4S-3 Chickasaw
    Last Military Serial:076 MLD
    Construction Number:55-0471
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky HO4S-3 sn 076 MLD cn 55-04...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aviodrome, Lelystad Airport, Lelystad, Flevoland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HO4S-3.

    9 July 1953

    Assigned BuNo 133777 with the United States Navy for administrative purposes. It did not serve with this service.

    9 September 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Netherlands Navy with s/n 8-2.

    From 21 August 1959 to 11 December 1961

    New serial number assigned: 076 MLD

    From 11 December 1961 to 30 November 1964

    Assigned to Naval Air Station Valkenburg, the Netherlands for storage.

    From 30 November 1964 to 1973

    Transferred to MLD Technische School, de Kooy, the Netherlands.

    March 1974

    Transported by ship.
    To Schiphol, the Netherlands.

    1975

    Placed on display with Aviodrome, Lelystad Airport, Lelystad, Flevoland.
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    26 March 2014


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2014 photo at Lelystad Aviodrome Museum

    14 May 2017


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Lelystad, Netherlands
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