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    Airframe Family: Piasecki H-21
    Latest Model:CH-21B Work Horse
    Last Military Serial:52-8683 USAF
    Construction Number:B.45
    Last Civil Registration:N57968
    Compressed ID:Piasecki CH-21B sn 52-8683 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Basler Turbo Conversions, Oshkosh, WI

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-21B.

    Circa June 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-8683.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as CH-21B.

    By August 1976

    To unknown owner with c/r NX57968.

    25 August 1976

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX57968 (H21B, 45) issued.

    13 May 1987

    To EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N57968.

    Based at EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    Markings Applied: ARMY, 28683
    Painted as CH-21C.

    16 September 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At EAA Oshkosh.

    31 May 2006

    Civil registration, N57968, cancelled.

    From By September 2010 to After July 2018

    Assigned to Basler Turbo Conversions, Oshkosh, WI for storage.

    27 July 2012


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2012 photo during tour of Baslers Factory / Yard at Oshkosh, WI.

    July 2018

    FAA shows aircraft exported to Venezuela in 2006 but aircraft is still stored at Oshkosh.
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