Navy Serial Number Search Results

156483 ... 156506
Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King
Transfers to MASDC from www.amarcexperience.com
156483 (MSN 61429) converted to SH-3H.  To AMARC as 9H0099 Sep 12, 1995. SOC Jan 8, 2003.  
On display, don't know where.  
156484 (MSN 61430) converted to SH-3H.  On display at National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL, painted
as 148990.  In 2011, seen at Pensacola painted as 156484.
156485 (MSN 61431) to AMARC as 9H0030 Apr 29, 1992.  To Brazilian Navy as N-3029 in 1996
156486 (MSN 61432) at Carson Helicolpters, Perkasie, PA May 2006.  To N92592, N82702
156487 (MSN 61433) to AMARC as 9H0026 Apr 23, 1992.  To Argentine Navy as spares in 2002.  Preserved at
museum Santa Romana in San Luis, Argentina as 2-H-235.
156488 (MSN 61434) converted to SH-3H.  To AMARC as 9H0074 Apr 6, 1994
156489 (MSN 61435) to AMARC as 9H0062 Jan 31, 1994
156490 (MSN 61436) to Brazilian Navy as N-3030 May 1996.
156491 (MSN 61437) converted to SH-3H.  w/o Oct 4, 1988.
156492 (MSN 61438) to AMARC as 9H0032 Jun 11, 1992.  To Brazilian Navy as N-3031 in 1996.
156493 (MSN 61439) to N692CC in 1995
156494 (MSN 61440) w/o Dec 31, 1972 when crashed close aboard USS Saratoga (CVA-60).  4 crew recovered.
156495 (MSN 61441) converted to SH-3H.  To AMARC as 9H0052 Dec 13, 1993.  SOC Jan 8, 2003
156496 (MSN 61442) to civil registry as N9260A
156497 (MSN 61443)
156498 (MSN 61444) converted to SH-3H.  To AMARC as 9H0090 Mar 1, 1995.  SOC Jan 8, 2003
156499 (MSN 61445) to AMARC as 9H0027 Apr 23, 1992
156500 (MSN 61446) to AMARC as 9H0065 Mar 3, 1994
156501 (MSN 61447) converted to SH-3H.  to instructional airframe at NAMTRA Jacksonville, FL
156502 (MSN 61448) w/o Jun 18, 1971.
156503 (MSN 61449) converted to SH-3G. noted painted as '149925' at Carson Helicopters, Perkasie, 
PA May 17, 2001.  To N9271A
156504 (MSN 61450) w/o Feb 12, 1971
156505 (MSN 61451) converted to SH-3H.  To AMARC as 9H0060 Dec 17, 1993.  SOC Jan 8, 2003
156506 (MSN 61452) converted to SH-3H, then to UH-3H-ET.  SOC Jan 17, 2006

56484 ... 56683 (EXACT MATCH)
Howard NH-1 Nightingale
DGA-15P for Navy.  Contract cancelled

56484 ... 56549 (EXACT MATCH)
Douglas R5D-3 
USAAF C-54D transferred to Navy. Survivors redesignated C-54Q in 1962.
Some became RC-54V or VC-54P.  Serials reallocated from cancelled NH-1 batch.
Survivors redesignated C-54Q in 1962.  Some became RC-54V or VC-54P.
56484 ex-USAAF 42-72468
56485 (MSN 10577) ex-USAAF 42-72472.  
56486 (MSN 10584) ex-USAAF 42-72479
56487 (MSN 10575) ex-USAAF 42-72470
56488 (MSN 10586) ex-USAAF 42-72481
56489 (MSN 10592) ex-USAAF 42-72487.  To civil register as N96451.  Stored by Central Air 
Service, Avra Valley, AZ as N96451, Tanker T-111
56490 (MSN 10587) ex-USAAF 42-72482
56491 (MSN 10598) ex-USAAF 42-72493.  Landing gear collapsed during landing NAS Agana,
Guam Apr 30, 1945.
56492 (MSN 10609) ex-USAAF 42-72504
56493 (MSN 10601) ex-USAAF 42-72496.  To Brooks Air Fuel, Fairbanks, AK as N44910.  Stored at Chandler, AZ
Had the rear part of the aircraft cut off and shipped to California for repair
of a previously damaged C-54 firebomber
56494 (MSN 10614) ex USAAF 42-72509.  To civil registry as N67147.
56495 (MSN 10619) ex USAAF 42-72514. Sold to Spanish AF as T.4-17.  To civil register as EC-APE.
56496 (VR-21, MSN 10624, ex-USAAF 42-72519) crashed after takeoff from NAS Kwajalein
on flight to Tokyo Sept 19, 1950.  26 killed.
56497 (MSN 10613, ex-USAAF 42-72508) to Aero Union of CA as N62342.  Registered
Jul 17, 2007 to Buffalo Airways Ltd ot Hay River, NT as C-FBAK.
56498 (MSN 10630, ex-USAAF 42-72525) to civil registry as N44918 to Biegert Aviation
in 1975.  To Atlantic Warbirds of Montana in 1996.  Now with Aces High as
N44914.  Noted at North Weald, England Jan 2006 painted as 56498.
56499 (MSN 10629) ex-USAAF 42-72522
56500 (MSN 10638) ex-USAAF 42-72533
56501 (MSN 10636) ex-USAAF 42-72531.  To civil registry as C-GDWZ Nov 1984.  With Millardair 
since Jan 20, 1995.
56502 (VR-6, MSN 10643, ex-USAAF 42-72538) flew into ground south of Konigstein, Germany
while on approach to Rhein-Main AB Dec 11, 1948.  1 killed, 2 injured.
56503 (MSN 10651) ex-USAAF 42-72546.  WFU and stored MASDC Sep 1970.
To Frigorifico Reyes as CP-1208.  W/o when crashed on takeoff
at Pista San Borja, Bolivia Jan 26, 1977.  An engine failure
during takeoff caused the plane to swing off the left side of
the runway and strike a parked DC-3
56504 (MSN 10661) ex-USAAF 42-72556.  To Brooks Air Fuel as  N99212. Stored at Fairbanks, AK.
56505 (MSN 10665) ex-USAF 42-72560.  Used on Berlin Airlift carrying coal. 
Assigned to Operation Deep Freeze/VX-6 in Oct 1958. Named Have Gum, Will Travel
Converted to C-54P 1962. Assigned to NAS Glenview, IL, 1964. To MASDC Jul 1966.
Bought by Texas Truck Salvage Co, Feb 21, 1975. Registered N67041 to Robert B Audiss Jr, Apr 3, 1975.
Registered to Central Air Service for aerial firefighting (air tanker No 149) Oct 11, 1976
N67041 cancelled Feb 27, 1989.  Bought by USAF Museum Feb 6, 1989 and loaned to Travis AFB, California, c Oct 1996
and displayed in original USAF serial number.
56506 (MSN 10673) ex-USAAF 42-72568.  To civil registry as N87591.
Converted to sprayer and sold to Confair of Canada as  C-GBKA. To Buffalo Airways 
May 30, 2002.  To N55CW
56507 (MSN 10681) ex-USAAF 42-72576
56508 (MSN 10692) ex-USAAF 42-72587 .  Was operated as a Blue Angels support
aircraft 1957-65, 1968.
56509 (MSN 10685) ex-USAAF 42-72580.   To civil registry as N62433.  Destroyed by Hurricane
Andrew at Miami International Apt Aug 24, 1992
56510 (MSN 10693) ex-USAAF 42-72588
56511 (MSN 10697, ex USAAF 42-72592) preserved at South Dakota Air and Space
Museum, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota.
56512 (MSN 10742) ex USAAF 42-72637
56513 (MSN 10739) ex-USAAF 42-72634 (VMR-152) hit mountain at south end of K-1 airfield,
Korea May 30, 1951.  5 killed.
56514 (MSN 10741) ex USAAF 42-72636.  To civil registry with Central Air Services at Avra Valley, AZ as N67062.
Delivered to March Air Reserve Base, Riverside, CA for display.
56515 (MSN 10737) ex-USAAF 42-72632
56516 (MSN 10738) ex USAAF 42-72633.  Sold to Spanish AF as T.4-14, later to civil registry
as EC-BQH.
56517 (MSN 10740) ex USAAF 42-72635
56518 (MSN 10744) ex-USAAF 42-72639.  Crashed at Port Lyautey and was destroyed by fire Aug 23, 1960.
56519 (MSN 10743) ex-USAAF 42-72638
56520 (MSN 10812) ex-USAAF 42-72707
56521 (MSN 10835) ex-USAAF 42-72730.  Crashed Mar 8, 1960 on Mt Picon,
in Sierra Nevada mountains of Spain.  All onboard survived.
56522 (MSN 10833) ex-USAAF 42-72728
56523 (MSN 10834) ex-USAAF 42-72729
56524 (MSN 10838) ex-USAAF 42-72733
56525 (MSN 10840) ex-USAAF 42-72735
56526 (MSN 10846) ex-USAAF 42-72741.  Made VR-6's 5000th Berlin Airlift
flight during May 1949.  Crew was comboned USN/USAF.
56527 (MSN 10851) ex-USAAF 42-72746.  To N67046 then in 1977 tol CP-1351 with Trek Airways and w/o at Rio Beni,
Bolivia in crash landing after an inflight fire Apr 28, 1980.
56528 (MSN 10854) ex-USAAF 42-72749.  Transferred to the US Navy as an R5D-3 1 Aug 1945.
Used on Berlin Airlift carrying coal. Later fitted out as an Admiral’s plane.  Involved with Operation 
Deep Freeze and was first aircraft to land on wheels at McMurdo Sound Dec 20, 1955 during the International 
Geophysical Year.  The International Geophysical Year (IGY) was an international scientific project that 
lasted from July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War 
when scientific interchange between East and West had been seriously interrupted.  Redesignated C-54Q in 1962 and 
retired to Litchfield Park, AZ Dec 1964.   Bought by Texas Truck Salvage Co Feb 21, 1975.  Registered
N67035 to Robert B Audiss, Jr Apr 3, 1975.  Later purchased by Biegert Aviation and based as a 
spray aircraft at Chandler Memorial, AZ.  Registered to Biegert Aviation Jan 21, 1976 as N44915 but 
by May 21, 2003).  Parked with only one engine at the FARWEST (ex Biegert Aviation) facility at Chandler 
Memorial as 56528.  Registered to ABS Aviation Development Feb 7, 2008, expired Sep 30, 2013.  
Scrapped at Chandler.
56529 (MSN 10855) ex-USAAF 42-72750.  Now on civil registry as N67032.
56530 (MSN 10862) ex-USAAF 42-72757.  To civil registry as N44904.  Current with 
Biegert Aviation as sprayer.
56531 (MSN 10864) ex-USAAF 42-72759
56532 (MSN 22152) ex-USAAF 43-17202
56533 (MSN 22156) ex-USAAF 43-17206 transferred to US Navy Aug 17, 1945.
Donated to Pensacola Naval Museum in 1978, WFU and preserved.
56534 (MSN 22159/DC611) ex-USAAF 43-17209.   Converted to C-54S.
Transferred to US Marine Corps.  WFU and stored Davis Monthan
AFB, AZ Nov 1971.  Bought by Aerospace Proroducts Feb 19, 1975.
Bought by International Air Ltd Feb 20, 1975 and registered
as N42SB.  Bought by Biegert Aviation Inc Sep 2, 1975 and
reregistered N44905 Feb 20, 1976.  Trasnferred to Globe Air.
DBR after aborted takeoff at Falcon Field, AZ with gust locks
still installed May 15, 1979. 
56535 (MSN 22170) ex-USAAF 43-17220
56536 (MSN 22172) ex-USAAF 43-17222.  Converted to C-54Q in 1962.  WFU and stored MASDC Sep 1971.  Bought by
Interair Leases Inc Jan 31, 1975.  Bought by International Air Leases Dec 12, 1975.  Bought by Gerald D. Wilson 
Dec 12, 1975 registered N96448.  Bought by Kachemak Seafoods Inc Mar 31, 1979, bought by Sea-Bear
Air Transport Jun 26, 1980.  Bought by Central Air Services Apr 23, 1985.  Bought by American Air Freight
Co Dec 3, 1987.  Bought by Stanton Aircraft Corp Jul 14, 1989.  Bought by Enzo Air Sep 1989 and
registered RP-C325.  WFU and stored Manila, Philippines.  Bought by Hayde Alix Jan 1993.  Bought by 
Commercial Air transport Aug 1995. It is thought that the aircraft has not flown since.
56537 (MSN 22182/DC634) ex-USAAF 43-17232.  WFU and stored MASDC Apr 1970.  Sold as scrap Dec 1974.
56538 (MSN 22186/DC638) ex-USAAF 43-17236.  Converted to C-54Q.  WFU and stored MASDC Sep 1970.  Bought by Michael Stumpf 
Feb 1975 and registed N43SB.  Bought by Carolina Aircraft Corp in 1979 and reregistered N111AV
Mar 1980.  WFU and stored Fourt Lauderdale, FL.  Bought by Florida Aircraft Leasing corp Jul 1981.
Destroyed by fire Great Abaco, Bahamas early 1982.
56539 (MSN 22184/DC636) ex-USAAF 43-17234.  WFU and stored 1971
56540 (MSN 22188/DC640) ex-USAAF 43-17238.  WFU and stored 1975.
56541 (MSN 22191) ex-USAAF 43-17241.  Crashed off Naha, Okinawa due to engine fire and fuel tank 
explosion Sep 22, 1960.  All 29 onboard killed.
56542 (22190/DC641) ex-USAAF 43-17240.  Converted to C-54Q.  WFU and stored MASDC Aug 1966.  Bought by
Biegert Aviation Inc Sep 1975 and registered N44913.  WFU and stored as an unconverted fire
bomber 1977.  During late 1980s/early 1990s, fuselage used as storage shed by ARDCO at Ryan Field, Tucson, AZ
56543 (MSN 22194) ex USAAF 43-17244.  To civilian registry as HK-1807P (Carlos 
Barcenas 14 Jan 1975 - Operated by TANA (1978)), current Sep 1999
56544 (MSN 22196) ex-USAAF 43-17246.  (VR-3) undershot landing at NAS Kwajalein Atoll, May 6, 1951.
56545 (MSN 22197) ex-USAAF 43-17247.  Ran off end of runway at Bempelhof AB Nov 15, 1048
and caught fire.
56546 (MSN 22200) ex USAAF 43-17250.  to Spanish AF as 352-15 T4-15.  To civil registry as EC-BQI.
56547 (MSN 22199/DC651) ex-USAAF 43-17249.  Cvtd to C-54Q, WFU & stored Davis Monthan AFB, AZ 1/73.  
To Interair Lease Inc Jan 31, 19754 and registered as N96450.  Bohght by International Air Leased Dec 12, 1975.
Bought by Derald D Wilson Dec 12, 1975, boutht by El Marc Air in 1985.  Boutht by Buds Flying Service  Oct 5, 1982.
Bought by Texas Aerial Applicators Jan 31, 1984, by American Air Freight Jan 24l 1986 and rerestered
as N74AF.  Leased and then bought by West Indies Air Transport.  While taxiing at Aguadilla-Borinquen Airport 
in Puerto Rico Feb 3, 1992, suffered a hydraulics failure and struck the right wing of parked Super 
Constellation HI-542CT and ran into a ditch. A fire broke out and N74AF was DBR.
56548 (MSN 22202) ex USAAF 43-17252.  Converted to C-54Q, transferred to USMC.  WFU and stored at Davis Monthan AFB
in Arizona Mar 1966.  Bought by Texas Truck Salvage Co. Feb 21, 1975. Bought by Robert B. Audias Jr. bt Apr 3, 1975 
reg. N67034. Bought by Central Air Services Oct 11, 1976 as tanker '150'.  Bought by Maricopa Aircraft 
Service June 18, 2000.  Bought by Maricopa Aircraft Inc. Jul 2000, WFU & stored Avra Valley, AZ.				
56549 (MSN 22203) ex USAAF 43-17253.  To civil registry as N99AS.
56550/56663 never delivered