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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-56 / H-37 / HR2S
    Latest Model:CH-37C Mojave
    Last Military Serial:145864 USMC
    Construction Number:56-099
    Last Civil Registration:N7388
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky CH-37C sn 145864 USMC cn 5...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HR2S-2.

    27 August 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 145864.

    7 September 1958

    Transferred to Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron (Medium) 462AA (HMRM-462), MCAF Santa Ana, CA.

    30 September 1958

    Transferred to MHRM-463, MCAS El Toro, CA.

    29 June 1959

    Transferred to MHRM-462, MCAF Santa Ana, CA.

    18 April 1960

    Transferred to MHRM-461, aboard USS Lake Champlain (CV-39).

    7 November 1961

    Transferred to Overhaul and Repair Facility, Jacksonville, NC.

    30 April 1962

    Transferred to MHRM-462, MCAF Santa Ana, CA.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as CH-37C.

    24 October 1964

    Transferred to Overhaul and Repair Facility, Jacksonville, NC.

    26 January 1966

    Transferred to Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 26 (H and MS-26), MCAS New River, Jacksonville, NC.

    22 August 1966

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    30 April 1968

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Marine Corps.

    To Allied Aircraft Sales, Tucson, AZ.

    19 February 1981

    To Keystone Helicopter Corp, West Chester, PA with new c/r N7388.

    By 15 October 1982

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    15 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL of Sikorsky CH-37C Mojave

    26 August 1993

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL keeping c/r N7388.

    19 August 1999

    Civil registration, N7388, cancelled.

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 November 2014


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: NAS Pensacola, FL.
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