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The S-43 was known as the "Baby Clipper" in airline service. On April 14, 1936, an S-43 with a 500 kg (1,100 lb) payload, piloted by Boris Sergievsky, set an altitude record for amphibious aircraft when it reached an altitude of 27,950 ft (8,520 m) over Stamford, Connecticut, with designer Igor Sikorsky aboard. [2]
The four engine Electra turboprop was capable of being operated in a mixed passenger/cargo configuration as a Combi aircraft. 4 – NAMC YS-11A Japanese-manufactured twin turboprop operated with the first YS-11 purchased new in 1972. 2 – Sikorsky S-43 (amphibian aircraft) operated with the first S-43 purchased in 1948. The S-43 was retired ...
The Sikorsky S-43 was a Flying Boat seaplane. Pan Am would order 10 units, which would be used on routes connecting the United States to the Caribbean and Latin America. The aircraft involved in the accident was manufactured at the Sikorsky Aircraft Industrial Plant in Bridgeport, CT. It was assigned the serial number "4324". [3]
Sikorsky XBLR-3: Bomber aircraft (1935-1936); Sikorsky's last fixed-wing design; Sikorsky S-43 "Baby Clipper": twin-engine, amphibious flying boat (1935–1937) (Army OA-1, USN JRS-1); downsized, twin-engine version of S-42; Sikorsky VS-44 "Excalibur": four-engine flying boat (1937) Sikorsky S-45: six-engine flying boat (for Pan Am), never ...
Sikorsky PS-3, serving as a transport for the Eleventh Naval district. VJ-5 D11-4 (8285), photographed in March 1930. The Sikorsky S-38 was an American twin-engined ten-seat sesquiplane amphibious aircraft. It was Sikorsky's first widely produced amphibious flying boat, serving successfully for Pan American Airways and the United States ...
From the mid-1920s to the late 1930s in the United States, Sikorsky produced an extensive family of amphibians (the S-34, S-36, S-38, S-39, S-41, S-43) that were widely used for exploration and as airliners around the globe, helping pioneer many overseas air routes where the larger flying boats could not go, and helping to popularize amphibians ...
The S-43 Sikorsky in Brazoria County Airport in Texas Brazoria County Airport Texas: The S-43 Sikorsky prototype. In the spring of 1943 Hughes spent nearly a month in Las Vegas, test-flying his Sikorsky S-43 amphibious aircraft, practicing touch-and-go landings on Lake Mead in preparation for flying the H-4 Hercules. The weather conditions at ...
Pages in category "Amphibious aircraft" ... Sikorsky S-40; Sikorsky S-41; Sikorsky S-43; Singular SA03; Sperry Land and Sea Triplane; Stroukoff YC-134;