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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:HU-16B Albatross
    Last Military Serial:51-7144 USAF
    Construction Number:G-194
    Compressed ID:Grumman HU-16B sn 51-7144 USAF cn G...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SA-16B by Grumman at Bethpage, New York.

    December 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-7144.

    December 1954

    Transferred to 41st Air Rescue Squadron, Hamilton AFB, CA.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as HU-16B.

    June 1964

    Transferred to 33rd Air Rescue Squadron, Naha AB, Okinawa, Japan.

    To 301st Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Training Squadron, Homestead AFB, FL.

    June 1971

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    From 1973 to 1981

    Loaned to SST Aviation Museum, Kissimmee FL.

    After 1974


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: I shot this at the long gone SST Air Museum, in central Florida in the 1970s

    Loaned to WR-ALC/MU, Robins AFB, GA.

    1983

    To Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, GA.
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    By April 1988


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the Museum of Aviation at Robbins AFB, GA.

    1 August 2003


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: HU-16B 51-7144. Its in the restoration area at Warner-Robbins AFB Museum in 2003

    18 February 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, Georgia, United States
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