HH-43 Huskie/59-1583
Serial #: 59-1583
Construction #: 64
Civil Registration:
N100PL
Construction #: 64
Civil Registration:
N100PL
Model(s):
H-43B-KA Huskie
HH-43F Huskie
Name: None
Status: Destroyed
Last info: 1999
H-43B-KA Huskie
HH-43F Huskie
Name: None
Status: Destroyed
Last info: 1999
History:
Delivered to the United States Air Force as 59-1583.
Delivered to the United States Air Force as 59-1583.
- Converted to HH-43F.
- Assigned to Detachment 16, 42nd Aerospace Rescue Squadron, Williams AFB, AZ.
- Transferred to MASDC as HG023, January 18, 1973.
- Declared excess, June 6, 1974.
- Departed MASDC, June 9, 1977.
- Registered as N100PL.
- Substantially damaged during a firefighting water bucket operation attempting a hover landing in a crosswind. The main rotor blade hit and severed the empennage, April 9, 1992.
- Substantially damaged at Columbia, SC when the engine spooled down while hooking a sling load of logs. The aircraft autorotated into trees, December 11, 1992.
- Crashed and destroyed after severe in flight mechanical failure, Phoenix, Arizona, September 25, 1999.
- The pilot and crewman were both fatally injured.
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