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    Airframe Family: Piasecki H-25/HUP Retriever
    Latest Model:UH-25B Retriever
    Last Military Serial:129989 USN
    Compressed ID:Piasecki UH-25B sn 129989 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Project Warbird Museum, Asheville, NC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HUP-2S.

    28 May 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 129989.

    Aircraft kept at Piasecki for trials.

    30 April 1954

    Transferred to Overhaul and Repair, NAS Lakehurst, NJ.

    18 June 1954

    Redesignated as HUP-2.

    5 August 1954

    Transferred to Helicopter Training Unit 1 (HTU-1), Ellyson Field, FL.

    25 July 1956

    Transferred to Overhaul and Repair, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    March 1957

    Transferred to Helicopter Utility Squadron 2 (HU-2), NAS Lakehurst, NJ.
    Detached to USS Intrepid, USS Valley Forge, USS Tarawa and USS Northampton.

    29 May 1959

    Transferred to Overhaul and Repair, NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    23 October 1959

    Transferred to Helicopter Training Group 1 (HTG-1), Ellyson Field, FL.

    30 November 1960

    Transferred to Helicopter Training Group 8 (HTG-8), Ellyson Field, FL.

    20 November 1961

    Transferred to Overhaul and Repair, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    16 June 1962

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

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as UH-25B.

    8 February 1963

    Transferred to Naval Air Basic Training Command, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    19 March 1963

    Transferred to Naval Air Advanced Training Command, NAAS Kingsville, TX.

    20 May 1963

    Transferred to Overhaul and Repair, NAS Norfolk, VA.

    25 October 1963

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    11 April 1998

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru-Kokomo, IN.
    View the Location Dossier

    24 June 1999


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide, light and dark halves due to lens malfunction.

    January 2014

    To Project Warbird Museum, Asheville, NC.

    24 January 2014


    Photographer: Eric
    Notes: Photo taken at The Tennessee Museum of Aviation ready to head to Project Warbird Museum in Asheville NC for restoration.

    4 May 2016


    Photographer: Graham Tanner
    Notes: Taken at Asheville Regional, North Carolina, U.S.A.
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     Eric
    John Bennett
    Glenn Chatfield
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