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Dear Madam / Sir, I will like to take this opportunity and deeply thank you for accepting the photo invitations in our group! It is a great honor for us to host photos from the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive's photostream. Sincerely yours, Panagiotis A. Pietris Group Admin

May 1975. On the quay side at NAS North Island San Diego California. One of the air wings biggest aircraft being craned aboard aircraft carrier CV-63 USS Kitty Hawk. During final preparations for its tenth consecutive WESTPAC deployment. USS Kitty Hawk sailed on May 21, 1975. Grumman E-2B Hawkeye 151706 VAW-114 ‘Hormel Hogs’. Tail code NH of Carrier Air Wing ELEVEN CVW-11. Side number was 604. E-2B Hawkeye 151706 was transferred out from VAW-114 as replacement E-2B 151719 was received from VAW-115 on October 5, 1975. In fact the entire VAW-114 inventory was swopped out during September and October 1975. Details of the air wings inventory may be viewed here: www.gonavy.jp/CVW-NHf.html www.gonavy.jp/CVW11-NH1975.html CVW-11 (NH) USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63) May 21, 1975 – December 15, 1975 (WestPac) During its existence from July 1964, Hawkeye 151706 served in nineteen squadrons. It was finally retired to MASDC on 21 April 1983. Assigned inventory code AN2E010, and was last noted in Nov 2008. Since scrapped and salvaged by HVF West, Tucson AZ.

Lockheed KC-130R Hercules (BuNo 160628; c/n 382-4776) would leave Marine Corps service and be transferred to the Chilean Air Force (Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACh)) as a C-130H (FACh 990) in 2005. Sadly, on December 9, 2019, the aircraft was reported missing and presumably lost with all 38 souls aboard, during a flight from Punta Arenas to the Chilean Antarctic base at Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva. See: aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20191209-1

Dear Madam / Sir, I will like to take this opportunity and deeply thank you for accepting the photo invitations in our group! It is a great honor for us to host photos from the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive's photostream. Sincerely yours, Panagiotis A. Pietris Group Admin