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The Sikorsky H-5 (initially designated R-5 [a] and also known as S-48, S-51 and by company designation VS-327 [1]) is a helicopter built by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation.. It was used by the United States Air Force, and its predecessor, the United States Army Air Forces, as well as the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard (with the designations HO2S and HO3S).
A planned upgrade the navy's Dragonflies to the Widgeon standard with a larger cabin, to be known as the Dragonfly HR.7, was dropped in 1957 due to defence cuts. [2] It was replaced in British service by the Westland Whirlwind , another derivative of a Sikorsky design, in the late 1950s.
Sikorsky H-19; Sikorsky H-5; Supermarine Seafire; Tupolev Tu-2; Westland Dragonfly; Yakovlev Yak-11; Yakovlev Yak-18; Yakovlev Yak-9; Military equipment.
Sikorsky H-34G — — helicopter: 8 March 1954 ... Dragonfly: helicopter: 5 October 1948: 1 February 1953: 2 [2] References This page was last edited on 5 October ...
Aircraft that have been preserved by the SLAF. A few of these fly but most are held by SLAF Museum. [6]Airspeed Oxford; Hawker Siddeley HS 748; Sikorsky H-5 Dragonfly; Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F
Three Dragonfly Series 1As were converted to WS-51 Series 2 Widgeon specifications and the first one flew on 23 August 1955. One of these conversions, registration G-ANLW, was the first helicopter to land at the London Heliport on 8 April 1959, and later appeared in the 1971 film, When Eight Bells Toll .
Sheldon H. Jacobson, opinion contributor. January 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM. On Jan. 29, just before 9PM EST, American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with an Army Black Hawk (Sikorsky H-60) helicopter.
This list of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) includes prototype, pre-production and operational type designations under the 1919 and 1924 United States Army Air Service aircraft designation systems, which were used by the United States Air Force and its predecessors until the introduction of the unified United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system in 1962.