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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:S-58JT
    Last Military Serial:80+18 MFG
    Construction Number:58-0855
    Last Civil Registration:N129NH
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky S-58JT sn 80+18 MFG cn 58-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Midwest Truxton International Inc, Burr Ridge, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a H-34G1.

    1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Deutsches Heer with s/n PB+215.

    New serial number assigned: QB+473 Heer

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Marineflieger with s/n 80+18.

    January 1976

    To Sikorsky Helicopters with new c/r N47781.

    1976

    Converted to a S-58ET.

    13 October 1976

    To Carson Helicopters, Perkasie Heliport, Perkasie, PA keeping c/r N47781.

    7 November 1984

    Certificate of airworthiness for N47781 (S-58JT, 58-855) issued.

    31 March 1987

    To Island Helicopter Corp, Garden City, NE keeping c/r N47781.

    Leased to New York Helicopter.
    Markings changed to: 7

    4 March 1990


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: Sikorsky S-58T New York Helicopter - About to land at its base at East 34th Street Heliport, Manhattan

    1993

    To National Helicopter with new c/r N129NH.

    To Midwest Helicopters Airways, Hinsdale Airport (formerly), Chicago, IL.
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    Converted to a S-58JT.

    23 March 1998

    To Midwest Truxton International Inc, Burr Ridge, IL keeping c/r N129NH.

    1 January 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for N129NH (S-58ET, 58-855) issued.

    5 April 2010


    Photographer: Robert N. Abbott Jr.
    Notes: Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport (Patrick Henry AP) Virginia

    19 November 2010

    To Midwest Truxton International Inc, Burr Ridge, IL keeping c/r N129NH.
    Civil registration reserved.

    6 October 2016

    To Midwest Truxton International Inc, Burr Ridge, IL keeping c/r N129NH.

    3 December 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Iowa City, IA

    3 December 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Iowa City, IA


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    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

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    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Helis.com

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher

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