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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-62 / H-52 / HU2S
    Latest Model:HH-52A Seaguard
    Last Military Serial:1446 USCG
    Construction Number:62-129
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky HH-52A sn 1446 USCG cn 62-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lake Superior College Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Training Center, Duluth, Minnesota

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HH-52A.

    Circa 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 1446.

    By 1972

    Transferred to USCG Air Station, Miami, FL.

    29 December 1972

    Participated in the rescue of survivors of the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Florida Everglades.

    1975

    Transferred to USCG Port Angeles, WA.

    By 1982

    Transferred to USCG Air Station Chicago, IL.

    May 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed from the control tower at DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    From 25 August 1986 to December 1991

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 460014l.

    By July 1992

    To Lake Superior College Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Training Center, Duluth, MN.
    Only the cabin survives here.
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    4 August 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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