List of Sikorsky H-19 operators

UH-19B, USAF Museum

RAF Whirlwind, 1977

HRS-1 of the USMC on display at a museum in 2014.

S-55 of the Air Force of Chile on display at a museum.

USAF S-55, 1951

The following are operators of the Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw and Westland Whirlwind helicopters. This helicopter was operated globally with many operators military in the late 20th century.

Sikorsky H-19 operators

Military

Argentina

• Argentine Air Force ^[1]
• Argentine Navy ^[2]

Belgium

• Belgian Air Force ^[3]

An HO4S of the Royal Canadian Navy

H-19D (S-55) of the U.S. Army

Cambodia

• Khmer Royal Aviation (AVRK)

Canada

• Royal Canadian Air Force ^[4]
• Royal Canadian Navy ^[5]

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Congolaise Government ^[6]

Chile

• Chilean Air Force ^{[7] [8]}

Cuba

• Revolutionary Armed Forces ^[9]

Dominican Republic

• Dominican Air Force ^{[10] [11]}

Denmark

• Danish Air Force ^{[10] [11]}

France

• French Air Force ^[12]

Greece

• Hellenic Air Force ^[13]

Guatemala

• Guatemalan Air Force ^{[14] [15]}

Haiti

• Haitian Air Force ^[16]

Honduras

• Honduran Air Force ^[17]

Israel

• Israeli Air Force ^{[18] [19]}

Italy

• Italian Air Force ^[20]

Japan

• Japan Air Self-Defense Force ^{[21] [22]}
• Japan Ground Self-Defense Force ^[4]
• Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ^[23]

Katanga

• Katangese Air Force ^[24]

Kingdom of Laos

• Royal Lao Air Force

Netherlands

• Royal Netherlands Navy ^{[25] [26]}

Norway

• Norwegian Navy ^[27]

Pakistan

• Pakistan Air Force ^[28]
• Pakistan Army ^[28]

Philippines

• Philippines Air Force ^[28]

Portugal

• Portuguese Air Force ^[29]

South Vietnam

• Republic of Vietnam Air Force ^[30]

Spain

• Spanish Air Force ^[31]

Republic of China

• Republic of China Air Force
  • Air Rescue Group ^[32]

Thailand

• Royal Thai Air Force ^{[33] [34]}

Turkey

• Turkish Air Force ^[35]

United States

• United States Army ^[4]
• United States Air Force ^[4]
• United States Marine Corps ^[4]
• United States Navy ^[4]
• United States Coast Guard ^[4]

Venezuela

• Venezuelan Air Force ^[36]

Historical

India

• Indian Air Force ^[20]

Civil

Belgium

• Sabena ^[37]

United States

• New York Airways ^[4]
• Los Angeles Airways ^{[38] [39]}

Westland Whirlwind operators

Military

Austria

• Austrian Air Force ^[40] {dead} ^[41]

Brazil

• Brazilian Air Force ^[42]
• Brazilian Navy ^{[43] [44]}

Brunei

• Brunei Air Force ^[42]

France

• French Navy ^[45]

Ghana

• Ghana Air Force ^[20]

Iran

• Imperial Iranian Air Force ^[20]

Italy

• Italian Air Force ^[20]

Kuwait

• Kuwait Air Force ^[46]

Nigeria

• Nigerian Air Force ^[28]

Qatar

• Qatar Air Force ^[47]

United Kingdom

• Royal Air Force ^[48]

• • No. 22 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 28 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 32 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 84 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 103 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 110 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 137 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 202 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 225 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 228 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 230 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 263 Squadron RAF ^[49]
  • No. 275 Squadron RAF ^[49]

• Royal Navy ^[50]

• • 700 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 700H Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 701 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 705 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 706 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 719 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 728 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 737 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 771 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 781 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 814 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 815 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 819 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 820 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 824 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 825 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 829 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 845 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 846 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 847 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]
  • 848 Naval Air Squadron ^[51]

Yugoslavia

• SFR Yugoslav Air Force ^{[36] [52]}
  • 783rd Helicopter Squadron

Civil

United Kingdom

• Bristow Helicopters ^{[53] [54]}
• British European Airways ^[55]

See also

• Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw
• Westland Whirlwind

Notes

1. "Fuerza Aerea Argentina UH-19B". Helis.com. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
2. "Argentine Navy S-55". Helis.com. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
3. "Sikorsky H-19/S-55". .belgian-wings.be. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
4. "S-55/H-19/HO4S/HRS Helicopter". Sikorsky Archives. 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
5. "The World's Air Forces: Canadian Naval Aviation". Flight . Vol. 67, no. 2416. 13 May 1955. p. 621.
6. "Helicopter Market 1971 pg. 576". flightglobal.com. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
7. "Chile Air Force Aircraft Types". aeroflight.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
8. "Chile - Air Force". Demand media. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
9. "Air war over Cuba 1956-1959". acig.info. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
10. "Royal Danish Air Force UH-19". Helis.com. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
11. Schrøder, Hans (1991). "Royal Danish Airforce". Ed. Kay S. Nielsen. Tøjhusmuseet, 1991, p. 1–64. ISBN   87-89022-24-6.
12. "French wings over Algeria". frenchwings.net. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
13. "Polemiki Aeroporia H-19". Helis.com. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
14. "Guatemala's Protracted War--The Role of the Guatemalan Air Force". airpower.au.af.mil. Archived from the original on 10 February 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
15. "Sikorsky UH-19B Chicasaw". jetphotos.net. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
16. "Escadre d'Helicoptéres H-19". aeroflight.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
17. "Sikorsky S-55 (UH-19) Chickasaw – Aeroflight".
18. "Israel Air Force - H-19". aeroflight.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
19. "IAF UH-19". Demand media. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
20. "World Helicopter Market". Flight International . Vol. 94, no. 3096. 11 July 1968. p. 52.
21. "Japan Air Self Defense Force". www2.ocn.ne.jp. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
22. "JASDF H-19". Demand media. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
23. "The History of Fleet Air Wing 21's equipments". mod.go.jp. Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
24. "Congo, Part 1; 1960-1963". ACIG. 2003. Archived from the original on 29 October 2005. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
25. "Marine Luchtvaartdienst S-55/H-19". Helis.com. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
26. "Netherlands - Navy Sikorsky-HO4S". Demand media. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
27. "Royal Netherlands Navy HO4S-3". Helis.com. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
28. "World Helicopter Market". Flight International . Vol. 94, no. 3096. 11 July 1968. p. 54.
29. "Portuguese Air Force H-19". Helis.com. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
30. "South Viet Nam Air Force - VNAF - Equipment". globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
31. "ejercito del aire UH-19B". Helis.com. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
32. "救護隊歷年使用各機型之照片". Ministry of Defense, Republic of China. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
33. "Royal Thai Air Force History" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
34. "Sikorsky-H-19A-Chickasaw". Demand media. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
35. "Sikorsky-H-19A-Chickasaw service". uswarplanes.net. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
36. "World Helicopter Market". Flight International. Vol. 94, no. 3096. 11 July 1968. p. 60.
37. "Titre : Un peu d'histoire ..." sabena.com. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
38. "Los-Angeles-Airways Sikorsky-S-55". Demand media. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
39. "Los Angeles Airways". aerodacious.com. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
40. "FlightGlobal World Helicopter Market - 1968". flightglobal.com. July 1968. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
41. "Westland-WS-55-Whirlwind". Demand media. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
42. "FlightGlobal World Helicopter Market - Page 49". flightglobal.com. July 1968. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
43. "Flight Global - 1966". flightglobal.com. July 1966. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
44. "Westland Whirlwind HAR3, N-7010, Brazilian Navy". abpic.co.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
45. James 1991, p. 336.
46. "FlightGlobal World Helicopter Market - 1968". flightglobal.com. July 1968. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
47. "World Air Forces 1977 pg. 72-73". flightglobal.com. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
48. "Westland Whirlwind HAR10". MooreAircraft.com. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
49. Jefford 1988, p. 140.
50. "A Royal Navy Westland Whirlwind helicopter flies alongside the south coast of England". BBC. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
51. Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 363.
52. "Yugoslavian Westland-WS-55-Whirlwind". Demand media. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
53. James 1991, p. 327.
54. "Bristow Helicopters Westland-WS-55". Demand media. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
55. "Westland WS-55 Series 3, G-AODA/EP-HAC/9Y-TDA, at The Helicopter Museum". helicoptermuseum.co.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2013.

References

• James, Derek M. Westland Aircraft since 1915. London: Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1991. ISBN   0-85177-847-X.
• Jefford, C G (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN   1-85310-053-6.
• Núñez Padin, Jorge Felix; Cicalesi, Juan Carlos (2011). Núñez Padin, Jorge Felix (ed.). Sikorsky S-55/H-19 & S-58/T. Serie en Argentina (in Spanish). Vol. 6. Bahía Blanca, Argentina: Fuerzas Aeronavales. ISBN   978-987-1682-13-3. Archived from the original on 27 May 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
• Sturtivant, R; Ballance, T (1994). The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN   0-85130-223-8.

External links

• Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives website - SIKORSKY PRODUCT HISTORY - S-55 (accessed 2018-05-27)