Carries false ID 14275, is in fact ex 56-1550.

Delivered to the RAF as XR483 in 1963. Sold as N2979G in 1981. Later preserved in San Jose, Costa Rica.

For decades this helicopter has been used as an training aid on various locations in Scotland. In 2017 is was moved to Morayvia and now it is undergoing restoration. Eventually it will be taken up in the SAR exhibition, together with the Sycamore, the Wessex and the Sea King.

Operated by Club Para-Commando which was a parachute club based in St-Simon, Quebec that flew two Sikorsky S-55s (S-55B/T C-GBHA and S-55B C-GBSC) as "jump ships" from a heliport beside Highway A20 that links Montreal and Quebec City. C-GBHA was imported in 1980 and C-GBSC in 1983, and both exported to the US in April 1985. No. 55912 was delivered to Grumman Aircraft in Feb. 1956 as N751A (for SAR use?) and flew in the 1967 film "Hurry Sundown." To Orlando Helicopter Airways (OHA) as N44689 and converted to a S-55B/T in the late 1970s. To OHA in 1985 as N44689 and sold to Whisperjet in 1993. WFU?

'Dropping supplies of 25 pounder field gun shells at a Commonwealth Division ammunition dump a few miles behind the line.' 51-14285 delivered to US Army aviation on 5 November 1952. To civil as N74899. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

First flew as Whirlwind HAR4 XD779 then reserialled as XJ409 before delivery to the RAF in 1954. Converted to an HAR10 in 1964. Preserved at Wales Aircraft Museum, Cardiff from 1979. Moved to Grangetown in 1991 then to Maes Artro Village, Llanbedr in 1994. Not noted after it closed in 2005. Probably scrapped.

Delivered in 1959. To Torbay Aircraft Museum, Higher Blagdon in 1979, the Royal Marnes Museum, Southsea in 1989 then to Tangmere Museum in 1997. Scrapped in 2013.

From the CFS. Retired to No. 1 School of Technical Training, reportedly broken up in 1993.

Scan from a print

An anonymous H-19/HSS-1. According to the Scramble database there are two at Dax. One is a navy 143, which is displayed as such, and this one, which should be 55-1086.

Please note the mission markings below the cockpit windows.

Assigned to 2(A) FTS, RAF Ternhill. Delivered to tthe RAF as XP331 in 1961. Became ground trainer 8649M. To Otterburn Ranges in 1981 and scrapped in 1985.