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    Airframe Family: Bell 204/205/208/208/212/214/412/553 / UH-1 Iroquois
    Latest Model:UH-1 Iroquois
    Last Military Serial:63-8828 USAF
    Compressed ID:Bell UH-1 sn 63-8828 USAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Eric Wright, McKenna, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UH-1.

    Circa 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 63-8828.

    Transferred to B Co, 158 AV BN.

    12 November 1974

    Crashed.
    Went down at Fort Campbell Kentucky while with Sid Nanson.

    14 May 1975

    To Leon Cleaver Collection, Norwalk, OH.
    Purchased by Military Surplus. Only wreckage survives here consisting of the fuselage shell and tail boom.
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    28 May 1975


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Loading remains at Fort Campbell Kentucky.

    26 May 1978


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Right side of 38828 and tail boom remains - Henrietta Township Lorain County Ohio.

    8 July 2013

    To Eric Wright, McKenna, WA.

    15 November 2013


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Eric Wright on Removal Day


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    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Individual Contributors
    Leon Cleaver
    Sid Nanson

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