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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-61 / H-3 / Sea King
    Latest Model:SH-3D Sea King
    Last Military Serial:N-3018 AvN
    Construction Number:61-397
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky SH-3D sn N-3018 AvN cn 61-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Naval Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SH-3D.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 154107.

    Circa 1976

    Transferred to HS-2.
    Operated with markings: NK-5, NAVY

    March 1977


    Photographer: Jim Loomer via Fargo Air Museum Archives
    Notes: Taken while landing on the USS Enterprise.

    March 1977


    Photographer: Jim Loomer via Fargo Air Museum Archives

    By 1991

    Transferred to HS-85.

    15 August 1991

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AN9H022.

    15 August 1994

    Transferred to Naval Air Depot, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    13 May 1996

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Aviacao Naval Brasileira with s/n N-3018 and operated with these markings: MARINHA, 18.

    30 October 2005

    Placed on display with Naval Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro.
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    18 October 2014


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Brasilian Navy N-3018 at the Rio de Janeiro Marine Museum as seen from a nearby hotel roof top pool
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