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    Airframe Family: Kaman H-43
    Latest Model:HH-43F Huskie
    Last Military Serial:59-1578 USAF
    Construction Number:59
    Latest Owner or Location:Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-43B-KA by Kaman at Windsor Locks and Bloomfield, CT, USA.

    Circa 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-1578.

    1962

    Redesignated as HH-43B.

    Converted to a HH-43F.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 58 MXS/MXMFS, Kirtland AFB, NM.

    To Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM.
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    4 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at Kirtland AFB - Rescue Heritage Museum - of a Kaman HH-43F Huskie

    13 March 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Kirtland AFB, NM


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