H-13 Sioux/Bu. 142377
Bureau #: 142377
Construction #: 1340
Civil Registration:
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Construction #: 1340
Civil Registration:
None
Model(s):
HTL-6
TH-13M
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2019
HTL-6
TH-13M
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2019
History:
Delivered to the United States Navy as Bu. 142377.
Delivered to the United States Navy as Bu. 142377.
- BOC: February 6, 1953.
- Assigned to Helicopter Training Squadron (HT) 8 at Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Ellyson Field, FL.
- Used to establish an unofficial world helicopter endurance record by remaining airborne for 72 hours and 2 minutes.
- Modified with an external sight gauge on the engine oil pump and a wooden platform with a fuel servicing tank fitted on one of the landing skids.
- The HTL-6 remained in a hover with six pilots alternating shifts flying the helicopter. Redesignates as TH-13M.
- Major Tom Archer as his instructor, Astronaut Lieutenant Commander James A. Lovell, Jr., with Major Tom Archer as his instructor, made his first helicopter indoctrination flight in this helicopter, November 11, 1963.
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