Warbird Information Exchange

The S-56 in the photo on Dave's link is in a scrapyard just east of the Mojave, CA, airport. I saw and photographed it in mid-March of this year.

Walt

Taken in 1996...

A perhaps a sister ship to the one in the scrap yard...

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sikorsky ... 0692676/L/

Until recently there was one of those beasts near Findlay Ohio that a person could look at. It was at a water filled quarry. It had no engines and the inside was gutted. It was dumped into the quarry for scuba divers to dive down to. The owner of the diving school told me he acquired it from an aviation trade school in Pennsylvania. Regards Carl

Here's a website for those who are interested

http://www.big-deuce.de/

Man, think about all the avgas that would burn - sheesh.

The Pensacola example has an interesting story behind it, sad but true. The Navy paid for one to be brought out of the yards, renovated to airworthiness and to be delivered to NAS Pensacola. So, this was carried out at Tucson and the aircraft flown across to Pensacola, where the powers that be, just towed it away, put it on display and left it open to the elements. Perhaps there was too much involved in keeping one airworthy?

The rest of the hulls in Allied's yard, were meant to be for an ambitious programme to get them flying out in China, which sadly came to nothing.

The example just ouside Mojave was in good condition at Tucson, but to transport it to its new location on a truck, they just sawed right through the wing roots holding the engine pods on. At one time it was said to be listed for Classic Rotors at Ramona.