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Aircraft Mfr's Number: 70388

* 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.

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Aircraft Historical Events: Entry 1

Date Tail Number Model Country Operator
August 1984 162098 SH-60B Flag U.S. Navy

In August 1984 the Aircraft was accepted into the Navy Inventory.

Aircraft Historical Events: Entry 2

Date Tail Number Model Country Operator
2001 166402 MH-60R Flag U.S. Navy

In 2001 the Aircraft was converted to an MH-60R and assigned Bureau Number 166402. This would be the 3rd MH-60R conversion. The aircraft made its first flight on 19 July 2001 and was formally accepted by the Navy later in the same month.

On 10 August 2001 the Aircraft was at Patuxent River, Maryland, for installation of flight test instrumentation and then to Lockheed Martin at Owego for fitting of new mission systems.

First flight with 'total weapon system' made on 4 April 2002.

From 2005 to 2010 the Aircraft was with HSL-41 at NAS North Island, San Diego, California.

On 9 August 2010 the Aircraft was delivered to 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309th AMARG) in Tucson, Arizona for storage and on 2 December 2010 was Struck from Charge.

On 27 January 2014 the Aircraft was sent to Fleet readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) at NAS Jacksonville, Florida for conversion to an Instructional Airframe for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Aircraft Historical Events: Entry 3

Date Tail Number Model Country Operator
March 2015 N48-032 MH-60R Flag Royal Australian Navy

In March 2015 the Aircraft was delivered to HMAS Albatross, Nowra, North South Wales Australia. The Aircraft will be used as a Ground Maintenance Trainer. The Aircraft displayed Tail Number N48-032.