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    Airframe Family: Bell 47 / H-13 Sioux
    Latest Model:HTL-6 Sioux
    Last Military Serial:387 RCN
    Construction Number:1387
    Compressed ID:Bell HTL-6 sn 387 RCN cn 1387
    Latest Owner or Location:Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Ontario

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    Event

    Constructed as a HTL-6.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1387.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 387.

    To Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
    This HTL-6 helicopter was manufactured by Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas in 1955, and began service with the Royal Canadian Navy in June of that year. It served with Royal Canadian Navy helicopter squadron HU-21 at the land base HMCS Shearwater in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where it performed pilot training and utility operations for the fleet. It later served on the icebreaker HMCS Labrador, which carried out resupply, survey and ice-breaking functions in the Canadian Arctic. It was transferred to the Museum in October 1966.
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    1994


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photo taken at the National Aviation Museum.

    11 December 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

    11 December 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
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