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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:UH-34D Seahorse
    Last Military Serial:150557 USN
    Construction Number:58-1684
    Last Civil Registration:N42171
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky UH-34D sn 150557 USN cn 58...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bissell Auto And Body, Saint Louis, Missouri

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HUS-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 150557.

    1962

    Redesignated as UH-34D.

    10 March 1981

    To Orlando Helicopter Airways Inc, Orlando, FL with new c/r N42171.

    To Apache Junction, Phoenix, AZ.
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    Your Assistance is Needed: One source of information indicates this airframe may have been intended as a parts source for UH-34D 147151. Can you confirm?
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    2009


    Photographer: Sid Nanson

    10 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    10 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    7 June 2013

    Civil registration, N42171, cancelled.

    To Bissell Auto and Body, Saint Louis, MO.
    Serial unconfirmed.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    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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