This aircraft was written off 14 January 1980 at Plattsburgh AFB, NY

This aircraft was originally fitted with vertical lift fans for VTOL operations (not unlike a large drone). The fans stow away for conventional flight (CTOL). The aircaft is currently only certified for conventional flight, so motors and fans have been removed.

Aircraft in test with VTOL electric motors and fans still installed. Currently the aircraft is only certified for conventional flight (CTOL). VTOL motors and rotors are not currently installed (removed) as of January 2024.

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?

This 1979 model Enstrom 280C Shark on inflatable floats was photographed at Burlington International Airport. Its' last registered owner was Eagle Flight Helicopters in Denver, CO when it was cancelled from the FAA register in May 2015. WFU

Photographer: via Bo-Göran Lundkvist.

Original serial is 58-0592.

Undergoing a maintenance check between flights.

Preserved at Burlington, VT from 1976.

Delivered to the USAAF as 43-16141 in 1944. To the Moroccan Air Force as 316141/CNALC in 1962 then to N54610 in 1978. To the USAF Museum for preservation at Burlington, VT by 1992. Moved to Little Rock, AR by 2010 and marked as 43-15326.