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    Airframe Family: Bell 47 / H-13 Sioux
    Latest Model:TH-13M Sioux
    Last Military Serial:142377 USN
    Construction Number:1340
    Compressed ID:Bell TH-13M sn 142377 USN cn 1340
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HTL-6.

    6 February 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 142377.

    February 1953

    Transferred to Helicopter Training Squadron 8 (HT-8), NAAS Ellyson Field, FL.

    June 1961

    In conjunction with events commemorating the Golden Anniversary of U.S. naval aviation, it was used in establishing an unofficial world helicopter endurance record by remaining airborne for 72 hours and 2 minutes. Modified with an external sight gauge on the engine oil pump and a wooden platform with a fuel servicing tank fitted on one of the landing skids, the HTL-6 remained in a hover with six pilots alternating shifts flying the helicopter. (NNAM).

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as TH-13M.

    11 November 1963

    With Major Tom Archer as his instructor, astronaut Lieutenant Commander James A. Lovell, Jr., made his first helicopter indoctrination flight in this helicopter.

    1969

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 18

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Philip Salmon
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