The Sikorsky S-43 (sometimes referred to as the Baby Clipper) is a 1930s American twin-engine amphibious flying boat monoplane produced by Sikorsky Aircraft...
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This would be the first accident of a Pan Am aircraft in Brazil. The Sikorsky S-43 was a Flying Boat seaplane. Pan Am would order 10 units, which would...
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The Sikorsky S-61R is a twin-engine helicopter used in transport or search and rescue roles. A developed version of the S-61/SH-3 Sea King, the S-61R...
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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...
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Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King (company designation S-61) is an American twin-engined anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft...
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The Sikorsky S-76 is a medium-size commercial utility helicopter designed and produced by the American helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft. It is...
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The Sikorsky H-5 (initially designated R-5 and also known as S-48, S-51 and by company designation VS-327) is a helicopter built by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation...
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company name was changed to Sikorsky Manufacturing Company. After the success of the S-38, the company was reorganized as the Sikorsky Aviation Corporation with...
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The Sikorsky R-4 is a two-seat helicopter that was designed by Igor Sikorsky with a single, three-bladed main rotor and powered by a radial engine. The...
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The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility military helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted...
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disappeared between Guam and Manila with 15 on board. August 13, 1939 Sikorsky S-43 NC16933 crashed in Guanabara Bay due to loss of control following engine...
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first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition...
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The Sikorsky S-75 was a proof-of-concept all-composite helicopter. Sikorsky Aircraft used all-composite materials to replace metal to provide greater...
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Norwegian Air Lines (redirect from Det Norske Luftfartselskap A/S)
cooperation with Pan Am, but services never commenced despite purchasing a Sikorsky S-43. After the outbreak of World War II, DNL ceased operations from 1941...
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Stratford Army Engine Plant (redirect from Air Force Plant 43)
access by seaplanes. The Sikorsky S-39, Sikorsky S-40 "Flying Forest", Sikorsky S-41, Sikorsky S-42 "Clipper" and Sikorsky S-43 "Baby Clipper" were built...
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earn a commercial pilot's license. In 1940, she piloted an amphibious Sikorsky S-43 in a 4,000-mile trip from Panama to Argentina. During the 1943 Revolution...
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and tariffs etc.), the Beechcraft and Electra were traded in for two Sikorsky S-43 amphibians. In October 1948, Port Heiden was de-activated, followed...
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Stallion (Sikorsky S-65) is an American family of heavy-lift transport helicopters designed and built by the American manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft....
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hydrobase became the site of Martinique's first fatal airliner crash. A Sikorsky S-43 (NC15066) on Pan Am Flight 216 arriving from Port of Spain at 10:11...
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The Sikorsky S-3 was an early Russian single seat biplane design by Igor Sikorsky. Work on the machine started in July 1910 and was completed in late...
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to Hawaiian Airlines when the company phased out the older Sikorsky S-38 and Sikorsky S-43 flying boats. The first Douglas DC-3s were added to the fleet...
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2022. "Sikorsky R-6A Hoverfly II". stanakshot. 26 April 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017. "Airframe Dossier - Sikorsky-Nash-Kelvinator R-6A, s/n 43-45473 US...
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Pan Am (redirect from Nuevo Grupo Aeronáutico, S.A. de C.V.)
routes with Consolidated Commodore and Sikorsky S-38 flying boats. The S-40, larger than the eight-passenger S-38, began flying for Pan Am in 1931. Carrying...
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operate, and 10 days after the maiden airmail flight he decided on the Sikorsky S-43, making Inter-Island Airways the launch customer for this new aircraft...
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The Sikorsky S-35 was an American triple-engined sesquiplane transport later modified to use three-engines. It was designed and built by the Sikorsky Manufacturing...
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The Sikorsky S-17 was a Russian single engine aircraft built at the Russian Baltic Railroad Car Works in Petrograd while Igor Sikorsky was the chief engineer...
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The Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 (or S-46) is an American single-engine helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky. It had a single three-blade rotor originally powered...
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The Sikorsky S-9 Kruglyj (Rounded One) was a Russian single engine prototype aircraft completed in the spring of 1913 by the Russian Baltic Railroad Car...
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Peru Cusco, Peru Huancayo, Peru Ica, Peru Montevideo, Uruguay Sikorsky S-38B Sikorsky S-43 Fairchild FC-2 Fairchild 71 Ford Tri-Motor 5-AT Lockheed Vega...
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LATAM Airlines (redirect from Lan Airlines S.A.)
joint venture with Lufthansa called LLTT (Lufthansa-LAN Technical Training S.A.) with the aim of satisfying the needs for aircraft maintenance training...
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