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In January 1949, a Sikorsky S-51 crashed off the terminal annex post office in Downtown Los Angeles, killing pilot Harry Slemmons, 27. [10]On July 2, 1951, a Sikorsky S-51 crashed in an orange grove between Pomona, California and Ontario, fatally injuring pilot John De Blau, 29, and civil aeronautics inspector, Wyman Ellis Jr., 44, both of Los Angeles.
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 ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Airways Flight 841 was a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter that crashed at 5:50 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, 1968, in the city of Paramount, California. All twenty passengers and three crew members were killed. The aircraft was destroyed by impact and fire.
Los Angeles Airways Flight 417 was a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter that crashed on August 14, 1968 in the city of Compton, California. All eighteen passengers and three crew members were killed. The aircraft was destroyed by impact and fire. According to the National Transportation Safety Board the probable cause of the accident was fatigue failure ...
In 1962, the U.S. Post Office Department granted San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines airmail contract number AM-103, allowing it to transport U.S. Mail until 1976. [8] Also in 1962, SFO Helicopter was operating sight seeing aerial tours on weekends and holidays during the summer months from Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco with a fare ...
The first operator of the S-61L was Los Angeles Airways, who introduced the type to service on 11 March 1962. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Another noteworthy Sea King variant, the significant change this time being the adoption of a conventional fuselage, the Sikorsky S-61R , was also concurrently developed for transport and search and rescue (SAR) duties ...
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 ...