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Template:Sikorsky S-61 family; Sikorsky S-61R; Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King; W. Westland Sea King This page was last edited on 4 May 2024, at 13:06 (UTC). Text ...
Data from International Directiory of Civil Aircraft General characteristics Crew: 2 Capacity: up to 30 passengers Length: 58 ft 11 in (17.96 m) Height: 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) Empty weight: 12,336 lb (5,596 kg) Gross weight: 16,164 lb (7,332 kg) Max takeoff weight: 19,000 lb (8,618 kg) Powerplant: 2 × General Electric CT58-140 turboshaft engines, 1,500 shp (1,100 kW) each Main rotor diameter: 62 ...
Sikorsky S-61; Sikorsky S-62; Sikorsky S-63; Sikorsky S-64; Sikorsky S-65; ... (Everett Sink, Zanesville, Ohio, United States) Sink S-1 [4] Sino Swearingen Aircraft ...
A LAA Sikorsky S-51 departs from the Terminal Annex Post office roof on its inaugural airmail flight, 1947. A LAA Sikorsky S-61 landing at the Disneyland Resort. Los Angeles Airways commenced airmail service on October 1, 1947, followed by scheduled passenger service in November 1954, making it the world's first scheduled helicopter airline.
Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King: 1,300 + United States: Sikorsky S-61 family, also made by Westland, Canada, Agusta, and Mitsubishi. 1959-1970s Boeing CH-47 Chinook: 1,179 + [21] United States: Built under licence by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Elicotteri Meridionali (Agusta). 1962–present Leonardo AW139: 1,100+ [22] Italy: Formerly AgustaWestland ...
A Sikorsky S-61 of the airline. San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines was one of the first helicopter airlines to operate without a federal subsidy [3] and it was also the first to operate with only turbine engine helicopters. Since helicopter landing sites were scarce at that time, the port of Oakland's board committee supported the ...
The S-61R type, in this case an HH-3E has a rear ramp, shown here open to load a patient (1992) The Sikorsky S-61R was developed as a derivative of their S-61/SH-3 Sea King model. It features a substantially revised fuselage with a rear loading ramp, a conventional, though watertight, hull instead of the S-61's boat-hull, and retractable ...
Bristow helicopters operated Sikorsky S-61N helicopters on behalf of His Majesty's Coastguard, the United Kingdom's coastguard, until July 2007 after which there was a 12-month transitional period whilst CHC Helicopter took over the contract replacing the S-61N with new helicopters.