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    Airframe Family: Piasecki H-21
    Latest Model:H-21B Work Horse
    Last Military Serial:8.000.114 AdT
    Construction Number:B.154
    Last Civil Registration:N64606
    Latest Owner or Location:Classic Rotors Museum, Ramona, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-21B by Vertol.

    Circa 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 54-4001.
    Issued for adinistrative purposes only - to France under MDAP.

    4 June 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de Terre with s/n 8.000.114.
    Delivered to French Army in Algeria by Aircraft Carrier DIXMUDE.

    Markings Applied: AAG

    Transferred to GH 2, ALAT.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Marine Nationale with s/n F-YDCB.

    Markings Applied: 31F-2

    1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de Terre with s/n 8.000.114.

    Markings Applied: AAG

    1960

    Transferred to GH2, ALAT.

    Transferred to ES ALAT.

    Transferred to EA ALAT.

    17 May 1968

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Armee de Terre.
    At 2118 TTH, Valence?.

    Circa 1968

    Reported as scrapped at Valence but re-appears on US Civil register as N64606.

    To Midwest Helicopter Airways with new c/r N64606.

    27 December 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    15 December 1990

    To Bruce W. Rodgers, Ramona, CA keeping c/r N64606.

    September 1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    10 August 1992

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX64606 (H21B, 54-4001) issued.

    7 July 1998

    Placed on display with Classic Rotors Museum, Ramona Airport, Oceanside, CA.
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    7 July 1998

    To Classic Rotors Museum, Ramona, CA keeping c/r N64606.

    15 October 2004


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at MCAS Miramar Airshow

    1 January 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX64606 (H21B, 54-4001) issued.

    21 November 2010


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: Preserved at the Classic Rotors Museum, Ramona, CA

    13 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Planes of Fame Airshow, Chino, CA.

    30 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2013 photograph at Gillespie Field, San Diego Airport, California

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow, San Diego, California

    14 March 2014

    15 March 2014

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