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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:HU-16E Albatross
    Last Military Serial:2129 USCG
    Construction Number:G-356
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SA-16A.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-0129.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 2129 as a UF-1G.

    1957

    Converted to an UF-2G.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as HU-16E.


    Photographer: Unknown Contributor

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    25 April 1972

    Loaned to USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
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    15 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at USS Alabama Museum, Mobile, AL. of Grumman HU-16E Albatross

    9 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    7 November 2014


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: USS Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, AL
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Vimeo
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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