AircraftGeek513
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Does anyone know when the last of the SH-3s were retired? I know that the UH-3s were retired in 2006. Google says that it was sometime in the mid to late 90s.
As of 23 September 1994, with the disestablishment of HS-12 at Naval Air Field Atsugi, Japan, the "Foxtrot," as the SH-60F has come to be known, had completely repalced the SH-3H in the Pacific Fleet.
I had a Department Head who flew them on his JO tour. I think his timing was pretty standard - went JO, then learned the MH-60S to become an FRS instructor, and then did an IA or Disassociated tour IIRC... So, backup the timeline, he would have started his DH tour in like 2014 maybe 2013... 4-6 years prior to that pegs it as 2007-2010ish. Yikes. Did we seriously have them that long?Didn’t the desert ducks fly them until ~2006?
@ea6bflyr flew impromptu form off one a few years back. I think they have some handicam of me!
It sounds like a much needed but less than ideal place to be picked up.I went to API in April of 2007 and I remember getting picked up in the Bay by a NAS Pensacola station SAR H-3
I can't say I realized there was a difference until this thread.As the OP stated, there was about a 10-year gap between SH-3H sundown and UH-3H sundown (interwebs agree), and of course, the Presidential team (also Navy) still has VH-3s.
I can't say I realized there was a difference until this thread.
I realize probably more than half of the Navy doesn't understand the difference between R/S versions of the 60. I'd bet more SWOs understand it (at least CRUDES ones) than CVW pilots.I'm sure there's some joke at the expense of the HSC community in there somewhere.