This Whirlwind is on display at the super Solway Aviation Museum and has been returned to her Navy scheme.

The H-19/HRS-1 was the first practical single-rotor utility helicopter and the first in Sikorsky's successful S-55 series. The centre-of-gravity problems of earlier models were solved by shifting the engine to the front and the passenger compartment to beneath the rotor hub. Other innovations included offset-flapping hinges and hydraulically boosted irreversible controls. This example is now on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian NASM. Ex US Marines 127799.

This Chickasaw was TOC in March 1953 and served at various Naval Stations in California and in Japan before being retired to MASDC during Nov. 1966 and subsequent SOC in Feb 1967. It is now on display at the super Flying Leathernecks museum at Miramar.

Epopee de l'Industrie et de l'Aeronautique, Collection Betrancourt

VH-UHM was never registered. It was stored in the open at Sydney airport and suffered storm damage there in 1973. It lingered a few more years before being removed

Seven S-55Cs served with Esk 722 of the Danish air force between 1956 and 1966.

Nice old chopper.

One of about fifty H-19s which served the air force and army, some of which were Japanese-built like this example

This is in fact an ex-Italian AF H-19 (MM57-5979), painted to represent the Portuguese AF's first helicopter, an H-19A based at Lajes in the Azores for SAR duties from 1954

The S-55 was aptly nicknamed 'Happy Elephant' by the French. Although Sud-Est held a licence, I don't think any S-55s were built there; this H-19D-3 certainly has a Sikorsky c/n plate. It was delivered to the French navy in 1957, went to the air force in 1959, and on to the army in 1964. It was retired with 700 flight hours in 1970 and preserved initially at Metz.

This vintage helicopter, which hasn't flown for years, was blown over by Hurricane Irma on September 10, 2017. Ex US Army 57-1627, delivered April 8, 1958.

This S-55 was delivered to Los Angeles Airways May 12, 1953 (N416A). Photographed in Vancouver with Estlin Air Services by which time it was converted to turbine power. Sold to Athabaska Airways May 1983, it was damaged June 9, 1999 when hovering 10 - 15 feet over a lake. The engine spooled down for an unknown reason and it settled in the lake and rolled on its side. Salvaged and sold in the USA as N2299M the following November where it is still on the register.

In storage at Davis Monthan AFB.

Early rescue helicopter preserved at the Greek air force museum. US serial 51-3952.