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    Airframe Family: Piasecki H-25/HUP Retriever
    Latest Model:UH-25B Retriever
    Last Military Serial:128566 USN
    Compressed ID:Piasecki UH-25B sn 128566 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Nathan Milarta, Towanda, PA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HUP-2.

    10 November 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 128566.

    10 November 1952

    Transferred to Morton, PA.

    13 January 1953

    Transferred to HS-4, Ream Field.

    19 January 1955

    Transferred to NART, NAS Oakland.

    20 June 1957

    Transferred to Oand R San Diego.

    10 February 1958

    Transferred to MCAS SOand ES, El Toro.

    8 January 1959

    Transferred to NAS Monterey.

    6 June 1960

    Transferred to Oand R San Diego.

    21 December 1960

    Transferred to Oand R Pensacola.

    28 December 1960

    Transferred to HTG-8, Ellyson Field.

    14 July 1961

    Transferred to NABTC, NAS Pensacola.

    November 1962

    Redesignated as UH-25B.

    18 January 1963

    To Oand R Pensacola.

    9 February 1963

    To Oand R Norfolk.

    15 October 1963

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    Total time 2363.

    Transferred to Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

    27 January 1976

    To Highway Service, Kokomo, IN.

    15 February 1978


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: 128566 is the second HUP in - tail only visible. Photo taken at helicopter storage yard on Old Philadelphia Road near Aberdeen Proving Grounds Maryland.

    To Jack Fetsko, New London, PA.

    25 April 1981

    To Leon Cleaver Collection, Norwalk, OH.
    Only the restorable fuselage remains, separated into two parts.
    View the Location Dossier

    25 April 1981


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: New London Airport, New London Pennsylvania

    26 April 1981


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: At Vermilion Ohio, Leons residence.

    14 July 1981


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: New London Airport

    January 2013

    To Project Warbird Museum, Asheville, NC.

    March 2015

    To Nathan Milarta, Towanda, PA.

    29 August 2015


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: HUP-2 Tail section loaded for trip to Towanda, PA

    10 October 2015


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: HUP-2 fuselage being loaded for trip to Towanda, PA
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Individual Contributors
     Leon Cleaver
    Eric Miller
    Sid Nanson
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