page_title: Kaman HH-43 Huskie
section_title: Surviving aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: Kaman HH-43 Huskie / Surviving aircraft
caption_attribution_description: A former U.S. Marine Corps Kaman HOK-1 Huskie helicopter (BuNo 139974) at the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona (USA), in 2006. The HOK-1 was redesignated OH-43D in 1962. It wears the markings of Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1), nicknamed "The Nighthawks", based at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico, Virginia (USA). The squadron was and is responsible for the helicopter transportation of the president of the United States, vice president, cabinet members and VIPs.
context_page_description: The Kaman HH-43 Huskie was a helicopter with intermeshing rotors used by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps from the 1950s until the 1970s. It was primarily used for aircraft firefighting and rescue in the close vicinity of air bases, but was later used as a short range overland search and rescue aircraft during the Vietnam War.
  Under the aircraft designation system used by the U.S. Navy pre-1962, Navy and U.S. Marine Corps versions were originally designated as the HTK, HOK or HUK, for their use as training, observation or utility aircraft, respectively.
context_section_description: In addition to those on static display and the airworthy example at the Olympic Flight Museum, many H-43s are still in use with private owners.
  Burma
  UB6166 – HH-43B is on display at the Defence Services Museum in Naypyidaw, Mandalay.
  Germany
  62-4547 – HH-43F on static display at the Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg in Bückeburg, Lower Saxony.
  Pakistan
  62-4556 – HH-43P on static display at the Pakistan Air Force Museum in Karachi, Sindh.
  Thailand
  H5-2/05 – Type 5 on static display at the Royal Thai Air Force Museum in Bangkok, Bangkok.
  United Kingdom
  62-4535 – HH-43B under restoration at the Midland Air Museum in Baginton, Warwickshire. This airframe is one of only two examples on display in the United Kingdom.
  United States
  Composite – HH-43F on static display at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. This airframe is painted as 60-0289, but was built up from parts of various HH-43s.
  129313 – HTK-1/TH-43E on static display at the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon. This airframe is painted in Navy markings.
  129801 – HOK-1/OH-43S in storage at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
  138101 – HOK-1/OH-43D in storage at the United States Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker near Daleville, Alabama. BuNo 138101 was formerly displayed indoors at the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola, Florida (circa 1986-2001) in a dark blue finish with USMC markings. It was repainted from its original USMC markings to pre-Vietnam U.S. Army colors when it was loaned to the Army by the National Naval Aviation Museum.
  139974 – OH-43D on static display at the Pima Air & Space Museum, adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona. This airframe is painted in USMC markings.
  139982 – HOK-1/OH-43D in storage at the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. This airframe is painted in Marine Corps markings.
  139990 – HOK-1/OH-43D in storage at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum at MCAS Miramar in San Diego, California. This airframe is painted in USMC markings. It was previously on display at MCAS Tustin in Tustin, California; but was moved to MCAS Miramar after MCAS Tustin was closed and NAS Miramar was transferred from control of the Navy to the Marine Corps.
  58-1837 – HH-43A in storage at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
  58-1841 – HH-43F on static display at the Military Firefighter Heritage Display at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. It is incorrectly painted with Air Force Serial Number 58-1481. This Huskie was a ground trainer (circa 1962–1976) at Sheppard Air Force Base, so it retained the square-tail empennage that was removed from almost all other Huskies after repeated rotor strikes in heavy winds. After being sold by the military, but before arriving at its current location, it was on display at the Pate Museum of Transportation in Cresson, Texas.
  58-1853 – HH-43F on static display at the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia.
  59-1578 – HH-43F on static display at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This may be the same airframe listed on other sites as being located at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, which has since moved off-base, but adjacent to, Kirtland Air Force Base.
  60-0263 – HH-43B on static display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.
  62-4513 – HH-43F on static display at the Castle Air Museum at the former Castle AFB in Atwater, California.
  62-4531 – HH-43F on static display at the Pima Air & Space Museum adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.
  62-4532 – HH-43B on static display at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB in Dover, Delaware.
  62-4561 – HH-43B on static display at the Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill AFB in Roy, Utah.
  64-17558 – HH-43F airworthy at the Olympic Flight Museum in Olympia, Washington. This airframe is painted in USAF markings.
caption: Kaman HOK-1 (OH-43D) Huskie on display at Pima Air & Space Museum (March 2006)
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