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New Glasgow, Nova ScotiaSikorsky H-34
The Sikorsky H-34 (company designation S-58) is a piston-engined military helicopter originally designed by American aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft for the United States Navy. It has seen extended use when adapted to turbine power by the British licensee as the Westland Wessex and Sikorsky as the later S-58T.
H-34s served, mostly as medium transports, on every continent with the armed forces of 25 countries. It saw combat in Algeria, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and throughout Southeast Asia. Other uses included saving flood victims, recovering astronauts, fighting fires, and carrying presidents. It was the last piston-engined helicopter to be operated by the United States Marine Corps, having been replaced by turbine-powered types such as the UH-1 Huey and CH-46 Sea Knight. A total of 2,108 H-34s were manufactured between 1953 and 1970. Wikipedia
H-34 Helicopter
Wikipedia H-34 Helicopter
RCAF H-34 Serials - Kestrel Publications
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RCAF On Strength (6), Canadian Aircraft Losses (2)H-34 H-34A 9631
With No. 108 (Com) Flight detachment at Great Whale, Quebec in April 1956. Damaged in hard landing after engine failure near Site 342 on 2 May 1956. Category B damage. Slung out from crash site by another H-34. Returned to service in June 1957. Crashed again at Great Whale River on 3 September 1957, only minor damage. Received further damage when it was dropped while being slung out of the crash site by 9630. Rescued T-33 pilot from 30 miles south of Ottawa during night of 18 May 1958. With No. 5 (H) Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario in summer of 1958. Took part in air show at Stanstead, Quebec on 1 July 1958. Received VIP interior in July 1958, used to transport Princess Margaret and party around western and eastern Canada in July and August. Medivac mission to Amos, Quebec in November 1958. To North Bay in December 1958, to take part in search for missing CF-100 crew. With No. 111 (C&R) Flight out of Winnipeg in summer of 1959. With No. 111 (K) Unit, detached to RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta when it crashed on 27 April 1961 after an engine failure. Was transporting construction workers from Primrose Lake range back to Cold Lake, several fatalities.
1955-11-03 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1961-06-26 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
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