Taken on strength by the USMC in 1961 as an HUS-1 just before resignation as UH-34D next year and deployed aboard USS Guadalcanal in 1964 with HMM-261. Saw service in Vietnam in 1965/66 and entered the museum in 1973. In 1990 it was painted orange as HUS-1L BuNo 144657 'XO-657', one of four modified for operations by VX-6 in Antarctica and setting a record with a 450-mile flight in 1957. By 1998 repainted in standard USMC colours to represent the Ugly Angels of HMM-362, which in 1962 was the first Marine helicopter squadron to deploy to Vietnam

Transferred to the museum in 1973, it is still there and located on the outside flight line.

This is actually UH-34D Bureau Number 150227 painted as HUS-1L Bureau Number 144657. 144657 was assigned to VX-6 on Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. This a/c is now back in US Marine Corps markings with the correct Bureau Number of 150227 applied.