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    Airframe Family: Piasecki H-25/HUP Retriever
    Latest Model:UH-25B Retriever
    Last Military Serial:128561 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N3SA
    Compressed ID:Piasecki UH-25B sn 128561 USN cr N3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Advanced Powder Coating and Sandblasting / Guy Jessop, Sparks, Reno, Nevada

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HUP-2.

    31 October 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 128561.

    12 January 1953

    Redesignated as HUP-2S.

    13 January 1953

    Transferred to HS-2, Ream Field.

    7 January 1955

    Transferred to NART, NAS Los Alamitos.

    8 January 1955

    Redesignated as HUP-2.

    11 December 1956

    Transferred to Oand R Jacksonville.

    10 May 1957

    Transferred to NART, NAS S. Weymouth.

    20 June 1958

    Transferred to NARTU, Lakehurst.

    31 July 1959

    Transferred to Oand R Jacksonville.

    14 December 1959

    Transferred to Navsta Mayport.

    15 May 1962

    Assigned to Litchfield Park for storage.

    1962

    Redesignated as UH-25B.

    28 March 1963

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    2 August 1972

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR3SA (HUP-2, 128561) issued.

    21 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Mesa Falcon Field

    12 July 1979

    To Gerry E. Horton, Phoenix, AZ with new c/r N3SA.

    Based at Hawthorne Ordinance Museum, Hawthorne, NV.
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    28 August 2002

    Civil registration, N3SA, cancelled.

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    To Guy Jessop, Sparks, NV.

    9 July 2014

    Based at Advanced Powder Coating and Sandblasting/Guy Jessop, Sparks, Reno, NV.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Guy Jessop
    Sid Nanson
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