Dates

Event

Constructed as a HH-1K.
Combat Search and Rescue variant of USMC UH-1E but with special Navy avionics.

1969

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 157188.

Transferred to Helicopter Attack Squadron (Light) 5 (HA (L)-5), NAS Point Mugu, CA.
Supporting SEAL operations.

20 October 1988

Transferred to Helicopter Combat Support Special Squadron 5 (HCS-5), NAS Point Mugu, CA.
HA(L)-5 redesignated.

Circa March 1989

Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

April 1989

I secured former HAL-5 HH-1K Bureau number 157188 through AMARC in Tuscon, Arizona for the National Naval Air Museum in Pensacola. I sent the HA(L)-3 paint scheme to former HA(L)-3 personnel Dennis Russell at HA(L)-5 at Point Magu and he painted it in HA(L)-3 colors. It was then flown to the Bell plant in Arlington Texas and on to Pensacola. Captain Dick Catone rode on the entire fight from Point Magu to Pensacola as our HA(L)-3 representative. It was accepted by Museum Director Captain Bob Rasmussen from me at the Seawolf Association Reunion at the front (East) entrance to the museum on April 17, 1989. (Don Thompson).

Markings Applied: 301
Marked as aircraft assigned to Helicopter Attack Squadron (Light) 3 (HAL-3).

17 April 1989

Ferry flight. Delivered to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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11 November 1990

Photographer: Robert Nichols

11 September 2003

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: Hanging in the old building

11 September 2003

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

19 April 2010

Photographer: Matt Maranto

27 March 2011

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States

8 October 2011

Photographer: Matt Maranto

8 October 2012

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield