Sikorsky Helicopter
                              HUS-1 / LH-34D "Seahorse" 
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144655
Sikorsky C/N 58-510
 
Struck from Navy inventory May 27, 1969, NARF Pensacola.
 
144657
Sikorsky C/N 58-545
 
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Official US Navy Photos - From Bruce Raymond
 
Struck from Navy inventory 1969 NARF Pensacola.
Sold to Stinson Field Aircraft in San Antonio, TX.
Purchased from Stinson in April of 1974 by Carson Services Inc,Perkasie, PA.
From Jeff Hill, Carson Helicopters: "This was a purchase of eleven aircraft that were incomplete.
We bought them for the transmissions and rotor heads, there were no engines or blades.
These aircraft were never assembled as aircraft and have been scrapped."
(Still listed on the FAA civil registry as N9468)
 
144658
Sikorsky C/N 58-546
 
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Official US Navy Photos - From Bruce Raymond   Official US Navy Photos - From Larry Lister
 
Crashed, McMurdo 23 Dec 1962.
 
I do have some info about it, as relayed to me from Bud English. This particular H-34 had a hydraulic servo throttle, and on engine start, there was a "run-away". (The normal throttle was a cable set-up, manually controlled). The engine oversped, shedding fan blades from the big cooling fan mounted on the prop shaft, cutting fuel and hyd lines in the clutch compartment, resulting in a fire. It couldn't be put out, so a Seabee on his cat pushed it over the side of the hill. When I
first got there in Oct '65, we were finding pieces of it just below the hill.
Larry
 
144661
Sikorsky C/N 58-613
 
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Photo from the VXE-6 Decommissioning CD
 
Struck from Navy inventory, sold to civil market as PT-HFV.
Written off Mar 1976 off Marana Island.
 
144662
Sikorsky C/N 58-614
 
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Photos from Billy-Ace Baker
 
Unknown
 
145717
Sikorsky C/N 58-804
"Gentle 1"
 
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Photo by David Pawlikowski - http://www.cushdrive.com
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Photos from Deborah Reed, Assistant Director, New England Air Museum 
Transfered to Naval Air rework Facility Quonset Point, RI in 1970.
Struck from the Navy inventory on 19 Oct 1973, transfered to Bradly Air Museum.
 
On Display at New England Air Museum, CT.
http://www.neam.org/
 
145719
Sikorsky C/N 58-806
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
 
Crashed at Wright Dry Valley 11 Nov 1962.
 
148112
Sikorsky C/N 58-1240
"Gentle 2"
Unknown
 
148119
Sikorsky C/N 58-1263
"Gentle 119"
Unknown.
 
Kept at NAS Quonset Point RI for summer training - Larry Lister
 
148121
Sikorsky C/N 58-1265
"Gentle 3"
 
Struck from Navy inventory 1969 NARF Pensacola.
Sold to Stinson Field Aircraft in San Antonio, TX.
Purchased from Stinson in April of 1974 by Carson Services Inc, Perkasie, PA.
From Jeff Hill, Carson Helicopters: "This was a purchase of eleven aircraft that were incomplete.
We bought them for the transmissions and rotor heads, there were no engines or blades.
These aircraft were never assembled as aircraft and have been scrapped."
(Still listed on the FAA civil registry as N90937)
 
148122
Sikorsky C/N 58-1273
"Gentle 4"
 
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Photo by Larry Lister
 
Sold to Stinson Field Aircraft in San Antonio, TX.
Purchased from Stinson in April of 1974 by Carson Services Inc, Perkasie, PA.
From Jeff Hill, Carson Helicopters: "This was a purchase of eleven aircraft that were incomplete.
We bought them for the transmissions and rotor heads, there were no engines or blades.
These aircraft were never assembled as aircraft and have been scrapped."
(Still listed on the FAA civil registry as N90938)
 
150220
Sikorsky C/N 58-1560
"Gentle 5"
 
Crashed and declared a loss in 1964, recovered by Sailors from VX-6 and USS Stanen Island, repaired and returned to service.
Crashed 19 Nov 1969 when the engine failed, LCDR Brandau auto rotated the H-34 down and it struck the side of a slope, slid down and caught fire. Two men were killed, Thomas E. Berg (USA) and Jeremy Sykes (NZ) The helicopter was destroyed.
 
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Picture taken on the helo pad in 1967. Ray  McCracken, ADR2, is with  me topping off the Herman Nelson
with 115 / 145 AvGas.
The aircraft is LH-34D, BuNo 148122, Gentle 4, tail letters JD.  - Larry
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Picture I painted on side of cockpit on Gentle 4 - '65 - Larry
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Had to add a little 1065 AvLube.
The R1820 liked to use a bit.- Larry
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Photos by Larry Lister
 
Larry on the OAE list:
"Seeing as this site seems to refer to the "starched wing" side of the squadron more often than not,
I feel that every once-in-a-while I need to throw a few pic's in, just to remind everyone
that there was some REAL aviation in the squadron also.
This is how we got our "toys". A basic "do it yourself kit".
 
The "arrival" pic's are the way we received the H-34's. 72 hrs after removing them from the box, we could be flying them. They had the engine installed in the nose (R1820-84C 9 cyl radial). We had to install the transmission / head in order to lift them out of the box. The tranny and head was in another box, as was the tail assembly. The Seabee's would run the crane for us to mount the tranny and landing gear. then we would move the sucker into the hangar and finish putting it together. Larry
Larry
 
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Photo by Larry Lister
Arrival of Gentle 5 (150220) - Nov '66
 
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Photo by Larry Lister
Unloading Gentle 5 in front of the Helo Hangar  -Nov 66
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Photo by Larry Lister
Removing bolts from box for access (yours truly) - Nov 66
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Gentle 5 BuNo 150220 - Nov 66
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Installing transmission Gentle 5 - Nov 66
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Installing tail boom Gentle 5  - Nov 66
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Installing tail rotor Gentle 5 - Nov 66
 
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Installing main rotor blades Gentle 5
Nov 66
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Out the door for Check Flight Gentle 5 Nov 66
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Lake Bonney - 1965
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Me and Gentle 4 - '65
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Helo Hangars - '65
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Gentle 1 on Helo Pad - '65
(This was the oldest of the H-34's during my tour)
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Gentle 4 with engine doors open

 
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
Helo pad - '65

 
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
 
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Photo from Larry Lister
 
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Unless otherwise credited photos from the VXE-6 Decommissioning CD
 
From Larry Lister
Sun Mar 16, 2003
Subject: Larry - this page is for you! H-34 page!
Prior to 1962 when McNamara did his "lets change designations of military airplanes to the Air Force way", the H-34
was known as HUS / HSS-1.
The Deepfreeze H-34's were UH-34D's with some cold weather mods, making them LH-34D's.
The biggest mod was the installation of the Andover APU instead of the small Waukesha unit.
The Andover was a V-2 air-cooled unit with a starter/Gen mounted on it that could supply total electrical power to
the aircraft in the event of an electrical failure.
It was also used as a boost to start the big motor, instead of having to use external power.
The other mod was the installation of the 150 gal external fuel drop-tank on the port-side of the fuselage, and a better
heater system.
The rest of the aircraft was just a regular UH-34D.

The difference in the landing gear........... The earlier BuNo's had what was called the "Bent-leg" gear... this was a single "bent" strut, mounted in a sleeve bearing, allowing for "smoother (?)" landings.
There was too much movement on set-down, as the fuselage move forward a bit as the collective was lowered and the
entire weight was settled.
The later aircraft had the "V-leg" gear, which gave better stability on landing. I'm not sure about the time the change
took place, but I think it was around the 148xxx series.

During my first tour in the Squadron (65 - 69), the Helo's were painted all orange.
When 150220 returned to us, it was painted gloss grey, and remained that way.
Was actually easier to see against the ice and snow, but VERY hard to see in the Dry Valleys.
The numbers and letters were black on the orange birds, but white on 220.
Larry
 
The Sikorsky model S-58 was a very successful general-duty helicopter. The radial engine was fitted in the nose as in the H-19, but the fuselage was more streamlined: the box-and-boom design of the H-19 was replaced by a simple tapering structure, the aft end of which could be folded. The type was known as HSS or HUS in USN and USMC service.
The S-58 also pioneered airline helicopter operations. Some are still flying, often converted with turbine engines.
2261 were built.
 
Type: UH-34D
Year: 1955
Crew: 4
Engines: 1 Wright R-1820
Speed: 200km/h   Ceiling: 3660m   Range: 400km
Load: 18 seats
 
New England Air Museum, CT.
http://www.neam.org/
 
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
 
Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives
 
Dave Riley's web page