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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:UH-19D Chickasaw
    Last Military Serial:55-3221 US
    Construction Number:55-0973
    Last Civil Registration:N5778
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky UH-19D sn 55-3221 US cn 55...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-19D-SI by Sikorsky at Stratford, Connecticut, USA.

    5 June 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 55-3221.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as UH-19D.

    Circa 15 May 1991

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5778 (UH-19D, 55-3221) issued.

    15 November 1991

    To unknown owner with c/r N5778.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma.

    By October 1995

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, AL.
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    22 December 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    22 December 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 September 2012

    Civil registration, N5778, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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