Photographer Roberto Tamburini - Italian Navy operated a total of 6 SH-34G and 14 SH-34J but in 1978 only four were still flying.

Photographer Roberto Tamburini

Photographer Roberto Tamburini - Initially coded 4-10, damaged and repaired in Belgium became 4-03

Ex 145684, displayed in these bright colours to attract attention in Pigeon Forge, TN.

Painted to represent an "Ugly Angels" Seabat with HMM-362 and caught on approach into Miramar for the show that year.

Sikorsky HSS-1N Seabat BuNo 148938 photographed on display at Kirtland AFB. It was retired by the US Navy to MASDC, (as it then was), at Tucson in 1974 but was later re-issued to the USAF as an UH-34J, hence its presence in this museum.

Over the Dardanelles. The helicopter, BuNo 149133, was lost near Gibraltar three months later, on 31 January 1963, during Karel Doorman's next trip. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Ex HT-8 Training Squadron, U.S. Navy, displayed at the Pueblo Museum.

Built as a HSS-1N, to US Navy 149841, to Netherlands Navy 136 taken on charge Mar-1962, renamed as SH-34J Sep-1962 but here at this 1963 photo still carrying HSS-1N on the fin, ditched into the North Sea near Noordwijk due to engine problems 17-Aug-1965. Due to salt water damage it was not repaired. It carries here the code D for the aircraft carrier Karel Doorman, and the badge of 8 Sqn behind the cockpit.