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    Airframe Family: Bell 47 / H-13 Sioux
    Latest Model:TH-13T-BF Sioux
    Last Military Serial:66-8055 US
    Construction Number:3555
    Last Civil Registration:VH-MNZ
    Compressed ID:Bell TH-13T-BF sn 66-8055 US cn 355...
    Latest Owner or Location:Richard Martin Bissell, Sorrento, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TH-13T-BF.

    Circa 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 66-8055.

    31 October 1972

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number XF280.

    10 September 1985

    To Commander Aviation Inc DBA, Daytona Beach, FL with new c/r N31406.

    8 May 1996

    To Hansen Helicopters Inc, Tamuning, GU keeping c/r N31406.

    18 April 2000

    Civil registration, N31406, cancelled.
    Exported to Australia.

    29 August 2000

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-OON.

    1 March 2002

    To Brentwood Projects Pty Ltd, Robina, QLD with new c/r VH-MNZ.

    18 October 2002

    To Air T and G Pty Ltd, Ballina, NSW with new c/r VH-MNZ.

    1 July 2005

    To Brentwood Projects Pty Ltd, Robina, QLD with new c/r VH-MNZ.

    23 March 2006

    To Air T and G Pty Ltd, Ballina, NSW keeping c/r VH-MNZ.

    9 January 2014


    Photographer: Ian McDonell
    Notes: At Redcliffe, Queensland

    8 January 2017


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At the Evans Head Fly-In, New South Wales in Australia

    18 September 2021

    To Richard Martin Bissell, Sorrento, WA keeping c/r VH-MNZ.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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