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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 ...
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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 ...
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled domestic flight from Dacca to Faridpur in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) operated by a Sikorsky S-61 twin-engined helicopter of Pakistan International Airlines. On 2 February 1966 the helicopter operating the flight crashed near Fardipur after an oil leak developed and the main gearbox ...
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 ...
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.
A Sikorsky S-61N at the BEA Helicopters base, Ellough, 1966. After the war the airfield remained dormant until 1965 when BEA Helicopters moved in to the hangars at the eastern end, serving North Sea oil and gas rigs with Sikorsky S-61 helicopters. [4] Helicopter operations were transferred to Norwich International Airport in the 1990s. [7]