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    Airframe Family: Piasecki H-25/HUP Retriever
    Latest Model:HUP-2 Retriever
    Last Military Serial:128484 USN
    Construction Number:J13-38
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum

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    Dates

    Event

    1951

    Constructed as a HUP-2.

    From 1952 to 28 March 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 128484.

    By 1994

    Noted at Bobs Air Park, South Wilmot Road, Tucson (AZ)in 1994 these Piasecki HUP-2 Retrievers are relics of the very early days of helicopter operations. The HUP-2 entered service in 1952 and had wooden rotor blades and a fabric covered rear pylon. They were retired in 1964. Bu128484 went to the Pima Air and Space Museum when this scrapyard closed in 2000.

    2000

    To Pima Air and Space Museum.
    Located in the restoration area.

    2 July 2001


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: The Navy called this a HUP-2, later UH-25B. This is Bu128484 in the restoration area at Pima Air Museum

    31 March 2011

    Civil registration, N91328, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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