Aircraft History |
N-300 | |||
US Navy | |||
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1961-02 | Gyrodyne DNS-3 c/n N-300, ff? accepted USN as DNS-3 N-300, Feb61 assigned to ground testing as the first aircraft of its type, it had problems-from Feb to March 1961, the aircraft suffered from blade cracking and on 18May61 with only 26 hours of running time, the first stage pinion bearing disintegrated. The bearing design was changed for all 4 R&D DSN-3 aircraft and N-300 returned to flight status on 13Jul61 redesig QH-50C Oct62 wfu & stor unk. |
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