Ex 54-4001

Former USAF 52-8689. Suffered engine failure in Labrador in 1959 and salvaged. Registered as CF-NVB in 1961. Cancelled in 1982. To the 3rd Wing Museum at CFB Bagotville in 1997 and restored for display as RCAF 9642.

Hamamatsu Museum [53-4398]

Undergoing renovation for static display at the Vintage Flying Museum in Fort Worth TX in 2021.

Flight-testing a mobile control tower called the Craig Helicop-Hut. The 93rd Transportation Company (Light Helicopter) was based here at Fort Devens. Stilll equipped with the Shawnee it was sent to Vietnam early on in December 1961. Photo from: National Archives at Boston

Just the front wheel is touching the ground shortly before liftoff. This 'Flying Banana' is the only one of its kind still flying today. (Classic Rotors Museum)

This Workhorse was delivered to the USAF on 13th June, 1955 and served until retirement in 1970, whereupon it was transferred to the National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program and placed at Offutt AFB in the original SAC Museum. When the new building was opened at Ashland (and the museum renamed to SAC & Aerospace Museum) it moved across and is now on display hanging from the roof.

Preserved ex USAF 53-4326. Later repainted as such.

Pictured in the storage yard adjacent to the Pima Air & Space Museum. I really enjoy photographing these old hulks but finding out all about their service history and how they came to be in such disrepair is interesting too. This particular helicopter served with the AF Flight Test Centre at Edwards AFB before being retired to AMARG during Oct. 69 where she was stored with the PCN/Inventory No. HC025. Eventually it was cut up and the cockpit was with Scroggins Aviation for movie mock-up work.

Photographed in the Museum of Flight - Restoration Center yard.

Seen in a somewhat disassembled state.

This H-21 had a long and productive working life serving with the USAF, US Army, French Navy, RCAF and the West German AF. This 'flying banana' arrived for daiplay at the National Museum of the USAF in 1965.

Ex USAF Workhorse under restoration for display at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum.

This Workhorse had been loaned to France's ALAT with serial FR08. It returned to the USAF in 1969 and was stored at Davis Monthan. It is now displayed at Hill AFB, Utah.

HH-21B Workhorse of the USAF's Air Rescue Service retaining its operational red and yellow band scheme whilst on display at the USS Alabama museum near Mobile.