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Aircraft Mfr's Number: 701233

Built by:: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Modified Model*:: UH-60A
Effectivity:: 1019
Lot Number:: 12
Mfr. Date:
Aircraft Status:: written-off
Last Updated:: 2025-08-25

* The model displayed above will either be the aircraft's birth or earliest modified model. To see the aircrafts modification history see the below Aircraft Historical Events.

Aircraft Historical Events: Entry 1

Date	Tail Number	Model	Country	Operator
January 1988	88-26024	UH-60A		U.S. Army
In January 1988 the Aircraft was accepted into the Army Inventory.

Aircraft Historical Events: Entry 2

Date	Tail Number	Model	Country	Operator
15 August 1995	88-26024	UH-60A		U.S. Army
On 15 August 1995 this Aircraft was flying lead in a two ship NVG mission from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus enroute to Larnaka International Airport in support of the Beirut Air Bridge (BAB). The Aircraft was at an altitude of approximately 700 feet AGL and doing about 140 knots when Chalk 2 observed a fire from lead's #2 engine. They then observed the Aircraft in a high-speed descent and impacting the Water. It was later determined that the #2 engine had suffered an internal materiel failure. Unit Involved: C Company 7/158th Aviation Mishap Location: Mediterranean Sea off coast of Zygi, Cyprus Fatalities: 4

Date

Tail Number

Model

Country

Operator

15 August 1995

88-26024

UH-60A

U.S. Army

On 15 August 1995 this Aircraft was flying lead in a two ship NVG mission from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus enroute to Larnaka International Airport in support of the Beirut Air Bridge (BAB). The Aircraft was at an altitude of approximately 700 feet AGL and doing about 140 knots when Chalk 2 observed a fire from lead's #2 engine. They then observed the Aircraft in a high-speed descent and impacting the Water. It was later determined that the #2 engine had suffered an internal materiel failure.

Unit Involved: C Company 7/158th Aviation
Mishap Location: Mediterranean Sea off coast of Zygi, Cyprus
Fatalities: 4