Photographer: Daniel Ruhier

At the rear of Sheppards Surplus Store. In 2019 it was seen at a paint ball park at Bicton.

Allocated maintenance serial 8720M when WFU. Perished at the Catterick Fire School in 1984.

Delivered to the US Air Force on June 11, 1953, H-19B Chickasaw 51-3955 was retired to to MASDC on Jun 9, 1967. Brought to Canada in 1973 after turbine conversion as C-FLIB, the helicopter is pictured with Quasar Helicopters, who bought it sometime after 1975.

Entered service in 1954 and later converted to Whirlwind HAR10. On 22 June 1970, while assigned to 110 Sqn, it was damaged beyond repair at Dungun, Malaysia after suffering an engine failure and force landing into a coconut plantation. The remains were donated to the RMAF as an instructional trainer.

'National Airlines' seven-passenger Sikorsky S-55 is shown here landing at the new heliport set up adjacent to the Miami Beach Municipal Auditorium.' One of the few big US airlines to try the helicopter, National started a short-lived service between Miami, Miami Beach, Bal Harbour, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and West Palm Beach in February 1954. Flying magazine also reported daily flights between Miami Beach and Hialeah. Information is hard to find, but this heliport's location could be worked out from the Shelbourne South Beach hotel in the background with the Raleigh Hotel on the far right.

More than 20+ Sikorsky S-55s and S-58s are used for cherry drying in the Okanogan River Valley area near Brewster, of Washington. This S-55B was first delivered to Chicago Helicopter Airways in Sep. 1956 as N875 and operated scheduled passenger flights until replaced by larger S-58s. Later N875W. Exported to Canada 1980, C-GSWL had 7 owners (MF Air Service, South-West Heli., Silver Pine, G O Island Hopper, Far West Heli, Spica Energy & Keith Franklin) before sold in May 2006 to Golden Wings Avn/Dave Smith. One of 10 S-55s seen at Smith's Monse Heliport, 4 mi NE of Anderson Field, Brewster, WA

Photo dated 1953 by the source but helicopter listed as lost in take-off accident at Chodo Island, South Korea on 18 September 1952. Photo from: Melvin Horwitz / Central Connecticut State University

Seen at the 1954 National Airshow, this was the first of 10 delivered to the US Navy.

A four fold increase in the production of cherries in Washington State between 1999 and 2017 (26.5 million 20-pound boxes) is behind a major increase in the number of helicopters under contract to area growers to fan rainwater off maturing fruit to prevent splitting between May and August. This includes a remarkable fleet of about 15 Sikorsky S-55s operated by Golden Wings Aviation's Dave Smith (in 2016) and nine S-58s operated by VI 1 LLC based at Anderson Field in Brewster, WA and the nearby Monse heliport. This S-55 (ex 54-1422) and 14 others were re-registered to Sierra Aeronautics LLC of KY in 2021.

Imported from the US in 1980 and here about to be transferred from Southwest Helicopters to locally based Silver Pine Air Services. In 2006 it was exported as N855TC and current in 2021, one of the last still to be piston powered.

Ex USAF 56-4279

Ground instructional airframe, ex-824 NAS. Roaded in from HMS Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent with the Navy Recruitment Unit. Moving to Fleetlands, it then became the gate guardian at RNAY Almondbank from January 1978 to early 1984. It re-located to the North-East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland in September 1984. Moved to RAF MIllom Museum in October 1996 until 2010. It was then sold and transported in January 2012 through Belgium to Greece. Reported to be in a private yard near Athens in September 2019.