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    Airframe Family: Hiller H-12/H-23 Raven
    Latest Model:OH-23D Raven
    Last Military Serial:57-3036 US
    Last Civil Registration:N73541
    Compressed ID:Hiller OH-23D sn 57-3036 US cr N735...
    Latest Owner or Location:Project Warbird Museum, Asheville, NC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an OH-23D.

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 57-3036.

    To Larry Hoikka, Kalamazoo, MI.

    15 September 1972

    To Department of Transportation Technology, Kalamazoo, MI with new c/r N73541.

    10 June 1975

    Civil registration, N73541, cancelled.

    8 May 1998


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Hoikka residence, Kalamazoo Michigan

    30 May 1998

    To Leon Cleaver Collection, Norwalk, OH.
    Only the base fuselage section remains.
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    30 May 1998


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Leaving Kalamazoo

    2 June 1998


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Huron County Ohio

    January 2013

    To Project Warbird Museum, Asheville, NC.

    Circa September 2013


    Photographer: Eric Miller
    Notes: Asheville Airport North Carolina

    Circa 2014

    To unknown owner.
    Transferred to a collector in Mount Vernon, Ohio.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Leon Cleaver
    Eric Miller
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