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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:S-58ET
    Last Military Serial:OB-T-1008 FAPe
    Construction Number:58-1547
    Last Civil Registration:N4247V
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky S-58ET sn OB-T-1008 FAPe c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Midwest Truxton International Inc, Burr Ridge, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    By 1962

    Constructed as a HSS-1N.
    Ordered by U.S. Navy for MDAP delivery to Germany. Finished to CH-34C standards

    1 January 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Deutsches Heer with s/n QB+483 as a H-34G-III.

    New serial number assigned: QW+404 Heer

    1967

    New serial number assigned: 80+70 Heer

    1967

    To Sikorsky Helicopters, Stratford, CT with new c/r N83829.

    March 1975

    Converted to a S-58ET.

    22 May 1975

    To United Technologies Corp, Stratford, CT keeping c/r N83829.

    16 June 1975

    Civil registration, N83829, cancelled.
    Exported to Peru.

    1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea del Peru with s/n OB-T-1008.

    8 December 1983

    To Midwest Truxton International Inc, Oakbrook, IL with new c/r N4247V.

    25 November 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed at DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    Operated by Midwest Helicopters Airways, Hinsdale Airport (formerly), Chicago, IL.
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    30 May 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4247V (S-58JT, 58-1547) issued.

    25 February 2013

    To Midwest Truxton International Inc, Burr Ridge, IL keeping c/r N4247V.

    By 17 September 2015


    Photographer: Pete Schneider
    Notes: Henry County Airport in Hampton, Georgia

    By 17 September 2015


    Photographer: Pete Schneider
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Helis.com
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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