Dates

Event

Constructed as a HH-3F.

Circa January 1970

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 1467.

1970

Transferred to Aviation Training Center, Mobile, AL.

By 1973

Transferred to CGAS Saint. Petersburg, Albert Whitted Field, FL.

By May 1976

Transferred to CGAS Annette, AK.

May 1976

Crashed.
Crashed in Hollis Pass while on a MEDEVAC mission. Aircraft was landed hard into the water in a slight right wing down attitude which bent the tail boom down and to the right. Flown to Aircraft Repair Coast Guard Air Station Annette.

By May 1979

Transferred to CGAS Sitka, AK.

By 1986

Transferred to CGAS San Diego, CA.

1986

Appeared in the movie Top Gun.

By October 1986

Transferred to CGAS Elizabeth City, NC.

By December 1986

Transferred to CGAS Kodiak, AK.

By 1988

Transferred to Aircraft Repair and Supply Center, Elizabeth City, NC.

By November 1988

Transferred to CGAS Clearwater, FL.

By 1990

Transferred to CGAS San Diego, CA.

Circa April 1990

Participated in the Exxon Valdez cleanup in Alaska.

22 September 1990

DFC Citation: The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Ensign Patricia A. McFetridge for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight on the morning of 22 September 1990 while serving as Co-Pilot of Coast Guard helicopter HH-3F CGNR 1467. The aircrew was dispatched to search for the fishing vessel JANICE N which was reported to have caught fire. Ensign McFetridge flew at an altitude of 100 feet through heavy rain, 75-knot wind gusts, severe turbulence, 30-foot seas, and visibility less than one-quarter mile. After an exhaustive two and one-half hour search, until fuel ran low, with visibility reduced to one-eighth mile, the aircrew sighted a raft with three persons onboard. As thesurvivors were hoisted, Ensign McFetridge carefully monitored the seas, and her quick reaction on severaloccasions kept the aircraft from striking the water. Demonstrating great composure under pressure, during the hoists, Ensign McFetridge provided communications between the Pilot and crew when the intercom systemwas disabled by the driving rain. Relieving the exhausted Aircraft Commander, she skillfully flew the aircraft, while making arrangements for medical assistance for the survivors. Ensign McFetridges actions, aeronautical skill, and valor were instrumental in the rescue of three victims. Her courage, judgment and devotion to duty are most heartily commended and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Coast Guard.

27 May 1993

Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 440035.

From By August 1995 to After 2009

To Black Hawk Technical College, Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport (JVL), Janesville, WI.
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21 May 2004

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: At Janesville, WI

By June 2019

Departed the college.