Julien Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 Piasecki HUP-3 Retriever, RCN 622/51-16622,C/N. 51. This aircraft one of the three HUP-3s to enter service with the Royal Canadian Navy for utility and search and rescue missions and built in 1954 in Morton, Pennsylvania, USA. With the help of The Helicopter Association International, the HUP-3 was donated to the Helicopter Museum, which had it restored in Philadelphia by volunteers at Boeing Helicopters. It was shipped to the UK in November 1991 and then transported by road to Weston-super-Mare by Museum volunteers. The aircraft is the only example of a Piasecki helicopter in the UK.Info from The Helicopter Museum Pictures mine.
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