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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:UH-19D Chickasaw
    Last Military Serial:57-5937 USAF
    Construction Number:55-1221
    Last Civil Registration:N37788
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky UH-19D sn 57-5937 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Warbird Air Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-19D-SI by Sikorsky at Stratford, Connecticut, USA.

    29 July 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 57-5937.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as UH-19D.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-5937.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    By February 1982

    To Allied Aircraft Sales, Tucson, AZ.
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    4 February 1982

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR37788 (UH-19D, 57-5937) issued.

    By July 1991

    To EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    Markings Applied: 93, U.S. AIR FORCE, 75937

    30 July 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide taken at Oshkosh, WI during EAA convention

    11 December 1998

    To Valiant Air Command Inc, Titusville, FL with new c/r N37788.

    1 January 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR37788 (UH-19D, 57-5937) issued.

    2 June 2006

    To Red Carpet Helicopters, Edgewater, FL keeping c/r N37788.

    14 September 2006

    To unknown owner with c/r N37788.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Titusville, FL.

    13 December 2006

    To Valiant Air Command, Titusville, FL keeping c/r N37788.

    13 December 2006

    In the inventory of Valiant Air Command Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, FL.
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    18 March 2007


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    16 February 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Valiant Air Command Museum in Tittusville, FL.

    2 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Valiant Air Command Museum, Titusville

    15 March 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Space Coast Warbird Airshow, Titusville, FL.

    15 March 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Space Coast Warbird Airshow, Titusville, FL.

    24 April 2019

    To Valiant Air Command, Titusville, FL keeping c/r N37788.

    To Warbird Air Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, FL.
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