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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-52 / H-18 / H-39 / HO5S
    Latest Model:HO5S-1
    Last Military Serial:128610 USMC
    Construction Number:52-040
    Last Civil Registration:N54059
    Latest Owner or Location:Connecticut Air and Space Center

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    Dates

    Event

    8 August 1952

    Constructed as a HO5S-1.

    8 November 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 128610.

    To unknown owner with c/r N54059.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Pensacola, FL.

    15 October 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N54059 (S-52-3, 52058) issued.

    22 November 1974

    Involved in an incident.
    Summarized NTSB narrative from report number CHI75FET11: There were no fatalities. Incident occurred at 14:10 hours. The damage was substantial. Incident occurred at the Porter County Airport, Valparaiso, IN. This was a local flight from Valparaiso, IN. The engine failed or malfunctioned during the initial climb. Collided with ditches while performing a power-off autorotative landing. There was complete power loss in the failure of one engine...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    1 January 1984

    To National Museum of the Marine Corps.

    3 December 1991

    To unknown owner with c/r N54059.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Pensacola, FL.

    1 May 2002

    Loaned to Connecticut Air and Space Center.
    Andrew King comments (21 Feburary 2014): The deal we struck was that we would restore her in trade using it for patterns for our own ho5s. We are about 70 percent done on their restoration but work is going slow due to the other ho5s needing so much copied (all we had was a stripped damaged cab) when the usmc bird is finished it will eventually go back to Quantico, VA. But that date is not been set.

    27 June 2002


    Photographer: Connecticut Air and Space Center Archive
    Notes: Part of a delivery of artifacts for restoration and display at the museum.

    27 June 2002


    Photographer: Connecticut Air and Space Center Archive

    Restoration started.

    10 May 2013

    Civil registration, N54059, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Pensacola, FL.

    5 June 2013


    Photographer: Andrew King

    1 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for N54059 (S-52-3, 52058) issued.

    1 January 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r N54059.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Pensacola, FL.
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