Registration / Serial:50-1244
Alternate Serial:01244
Other Marks:RESCUE
Aircraft Original Type:Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee
Aircraft Generic Type:Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee
Aircraft Version:Piasecki YH-21 Workhorse
C/n (msn):[ 50-1244 ]
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
Unit Markings:ARDC - Air Research and Development Command
City / Airport:Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB / Wright AFB (KDWF / DWF)Map
Region / Country:Ohio, United States
Photo Date:May 1955
Photo from:Bob Garrard CollectionContact
Photo ID:611096Submit Correction
View count: 279
Piasecki YH-21-PH Workhorse One of 18 SAR (Search and Rescue) service test models built. This one, assigned to the Wright Air Development Command, has a triangular device fitted to the windshield. Seen at a Dayton, Ohio air show in May1955. Later models, with their Arctic winter capabilities ( the H-21A and H-21B) were put into service by both the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) to maintain and service DEW (Distant Early Warning) radar installations stretching from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska across the Canadian Arctic to Greenland and Iceland.
Registration / Serial:50-1244
Alternate Serial:01244
Aircraft Version:Piasecki YH-21 Workhorse
C/n (msn):[ 50-1244 ]
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
City / Airport:Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB / Wright AFB (KDWF / DWF)Map
Region / Country:Ohio, United States
Photo Date:May 1955
Photo from:Bob Garrard CollectionContact
Registration / Serial:50-1244
Alternate Serial:01244
Other Marks:RESCUE
Aircraft Original Type:Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee
Aircraft Generic Type:Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee
Aircraft Version:Piasecki YH-21 Workhorse
C/n (msn):[ 50-1244 ]
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
Unit Markings:ARDC - Air Research and Development Command
City / Airport:Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB / Wright AFB (KDWF / DWF)Map
Region / Country:Ohio, United States
Photo Date:May 1955
Photo from:Bob Garrard CollectionContact
Photo ID:611096Submit Correction
View count: 279
Piasecki YH-21-PH Workhorse One of 18 SAR (Search and Rescue) service test models built. This one, assigned to the Wright Air Development Command, has a triangular device fitted to the windshield. Seen at a Dayton, Ohio air show in May1955. Later models, with their Arctic winter capabilities ( the H-21A and H-21B) were put into service by both the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) to maintain and service DEW (Distant Early Warning) radar installations stretching from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska across the Canadian Arctic to Greenland and Iceland.
Registration / Serial:50-1244
Alternate Serial:01244
Aircraft Version:Piasecki YH-21 Workhorse
C/n (msn):[ 50-1244 ]
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
City / Airport:Dayton - Wright-Patterson AFB / Wright AFB (KDWF / DWF)Map
Region / Country:Ohio, United States
Photo Date:May 1955
Photo from:Bob Garrard CollectionContact