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    Airframe Family: Bell 206 / H-57 Sea Ranger / H-58 Jet Ranger / 407 / 417
    Latest Model:OH-58X Kiowa
    Last Military Serial:69-16322 US
    Construction Number:40543
    Compressed ID:Bell OH-58X sn 69-16322 US cn 40543...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library, Easley, SC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an OH-58A.

    Circa 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 69-16322.

    1985

    Converted to an OH-58D.
    Fourth development aircraft.

    1992

    Converted to an OH-58X.
    Unofficial designation.

    Markings Applied: 91-6322

    March 1999

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, AL.
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    12 December 2019

    Loaned to Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library, Easley, SC.

    Marked to represent OH-58D Kiowa Warrior 90-00370 in which Capt Hampton was the first female military pilot in US history to be shot down and killed as a result of hostile fire near Fallujah, Iraq on January 2, 2004.
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