| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | 143973 |
| Military Code: | XM-23 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Sikorsky S-58 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Sikorsky S-58/H-34/Choctaw/Seahorse |
| Aircraft Version: | Sikorsky HUS-1 |
| C/n (msn): | 58485 |
| Operator Titles: | USA - Marines |
| Unit Markings: | HMX-1 |
| Location | |
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| City / Area: | Washington / The Ellipse [ Off-Airport ]Map |
| Region / Country: | District of Columbia, United States |
| Photo Date: | 12 July 1957 |
| Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
| Photo ID: | 495287 |
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Photo must have been taken on 12 July 1957, the day of the first US presidential flight in a helicopter in a simulated evacuation of the government to Camp David. Eisenhower took off from the South Lawn of the White House in a Bell H-13J, chosen for the type's safety record. Six H-19, H-21 and HUS-1 helicopters operated from The Ellipse. HMX-1 was then an experimental unit. 143973 delivered in May 1957, destroyed in Vietnam on 31 January 1968. Photo by: Paul Schutzer / Life This photo was added on 11 September 2022, and has since been viewed 399 times. |