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    Airframe Family: Bell 204/205/208/208/212/214/412/553 / UH-1 Iroquois
    Latest Model:UH-1H Iroquois
    Last Military Serial:66-16401 US
    Construction Number:8595
    Last Civil Registration:N407KC
    Compressed ID:Bell UH-1H sn 66-16401 US cn 8595 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:USDA Forest Service, Bakersfield, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UH-1H.

    Circa 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 66-16401.

    From Unknown to By January 2010

    To San Joaquin Helicopters, Delano Municipal Airport, Delano, CA.
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    2 September 1998

    To USDA Forest Service, Bakersfield, CA with new c/r N407KC.

    2 September 1998

    To USDA Forest Service, Bakersfield, CA with new c/r N240KC.

    Based at Kern County Fire Department, Keene, CA.
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    3 February 2009

    To USDA Forest Service, Bakersfield, CA with new c/r N407KC.

    By 17 September 2012

    Operated as fire service #407.

    By 17 September 2012

    Markings Applied: 407, KERN COUNTY

    17 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the CDF base in Redding, California.

    13 January 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kern County Fire Station 11 in Keene, California.

    13 January 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kern County Fire Station 11 in Keene, California.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Mike Henniger
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