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    Airframe Family: Boeing-Vertol V-107 / H-46 Sea Knight
    Latest Model:CH-46E Sea Knight
    Last Military Serial:154803 USMC
    Construction Number:2410
    Compressed ID:Boeing-Vertol CH-46E sn 154803 USMC...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flying Leatherneck Aviation Musem, Miramar MCAS, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CH-46D.

    February 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 154803.

    March 1968

    Transferred to Hamron 30 COSA.

    March 1968

    Transferred to HMM-263.

    May 1971

    Transferred to H and MS 36 COSA.

    June 1971

    Transferred to HMM-165.

    July 1971

    Transferred to H and MS 36.

    February 1972

    Transferred to HMM-164.

    July 1973

    Transferred to HMM-165.

    1975

    This was the helicopter that lifted the US ambassador off the embasy roof in Saigon in 1975.

    Converted to a CH-46E.

    From Circa 2001 to Circa 2001

    Assigned to for storage.
    Retired at Norfolk, VA.

    2003

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Marine Corps.

    To Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum (Annex), Miramar MCAS (North Side), San Diego, CA.
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    By January 2007

    To Flying Leatherneck Aviation Musem, Miramar MCAS, San Diego, CA.
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    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    31 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Flying Leathernecks Aviation Museum, San Diego


    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Mike Henniger
    Sid Nanson

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