The Sikorsky S-38 was an American twin-engined ten-seat sesquiplane amphibious aircraft. It was Sikorsky's first widely produced amphibious flying boat...
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followed, but the S-40 was big step forward as it could carry 38 passengers as opposed to the S-38's eight. Sikorsky designed the S-40 in response to...
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The Sikorsky S-92 is an American twin-engine medium-lift helicopter built by Sikorsky Aircraft for the civil and military helicopter markets. The S-92...
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Corporation. Only one was built, but the design led to the successful Sikorsky S-38. The S-34 was a sesquiplane amphibian with a boat hull, being powered by...
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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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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-38 biplane flying boat, Pan Am operated the type on routes in the Caribbean, South America, and between Boston and Halifax. The S-41 had...
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The Sikorsky Ilya Muromets (Russian: Сикорский Илья Муромец) (versions S-22, S-23, S-24, S-25, S-26 and S-27) was a class of Russian pre-World War I large...
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The Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw (company model number S-55) is a multi-purpose piston-engined helicopter that was used by the United States Army and United...
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The Sikorsky S-36 was an eight-seat amphibian sesquiplane designed and built by the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company in the late 1920s. The aircraft was...
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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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The Sikorsky H-34 (company designation S-58) is an American piston-engined military utility helicopter originally designed by Sikorsky as an anti-submarine...
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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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The Sikorsky S-39 is an American light amphibious aircraft produced by Sikorsky Aircraft during the early 1930s. The S-39 was a smaller, single-engine...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Sikorsky S-38)
of the aircraft's demise it had flown 500,000 miles. Replicas of the Sikorsky S-38 were used in the filming of the 2004 Martin Scorsese biopic of Howard...
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now Hawaiian Airlines, flying aircraft ranging from eight-passenger Sikorsky S-38 amphibians to Douglas DC-3s and DC-9s into the late 1960s. It is included...
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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-434 is a light, turbine-powered helicopter. The S-434 is an improved development of the Schweizer S333. The prototype S-434 first flew on...
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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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Sikorsky S-92 and is larger than the former Marine One helicopters. Sikorsky entered the VH-92 variant of the S-92 into the VXX competition for U.S....
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The Sikorsky S-6 was a Russian single engine experimental aircraft similar to the S-5, built in 1911 by Igor Sikorsky. Construction of the first S-6 was...
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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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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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sparingly in the movie, but only models of it actually move in the film. Sikorsky S-38 amphibian—a "flying yacht" for the wealthy. This medium-sized, twin-engined...
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boats, although they also used the Consolidated Fleetster, and the Sikorsky S-38. After the onset of the Great Depression NYRBA's backers were coerced...
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changed 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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Coulson Aviation (section Sikorsky S-76)
(Sikorsky S-76B) HeliTanker 60 (N60CU) (Sikorsky UH-60A Blackhawk) N745AW (Sikorsky UH-60A Blackhawk) N745AW (Sikorsky S-61N Mk. II) N476AW (Sikorsky S-61N...
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late 1930s in the United States, Sikorsky produced an extensive family of amphibians (the S-34, S-36, S-38, S-39, S-41, S-43) that were widely used for exploration...
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of the then Dutch colony Suriname. Pan American World Airways used Sikorsky S-38 amphibians. Rich and famous Americans, mostly aviators, visited Suriname...
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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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