Andy Marden lists 54 airframes of which 3 are civilian S-55. An additional H-19 which stood alone at Chandler has gone to a museum and is stored at Falcon Field.
Whisper jet was quoted in April 2011 as having 85 airframes available; even allowing for conversions that might still leave half the difference not accounted for but I am not aware of a batch of S-55/H-19 is storage anywhere else.
Ø "As far as parts support goes, ... we have two warehouses full of S-55 parts, many in original unopened Sikorsky boxes. We have main rotor blades and transmissions, plus thousands of other line-item parts. There are also 85 S-55 airframes still available in our inventory - if we wanted to manufacture more aircraft."
54 (I think - My eyes blurred eventually) in Mach III Publishings "2013/14 USA Military Out Of Service"
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On 25/02/2014 09:59, Phixer wrote:
I thought I'd pick up a seriously old thread and post a reply. Can confirm a whole bunch of helis are indeed stored in Casa Grande. All look like S-55s, some with and some without booms. They can be found in a secure compound at N32.89,W111.788826. When there in Feb 2013 I could count 74 frames, some of which are confirmed by reg ex Gila.
Do you have a list? It had previously been reported that 55 were stored at Chandler and there have not been any comments regarding additions to the storage compound.
I thought these had come direct from Chandler?
In the compound at Chandler July 2000 were 2 Seabee's, one of which was N6127K; anyone know what happened to them, or the unidentified Thrush Commander?
Phixer
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