Warbird Information Exchange

And now confirmation by the man himself:

Is an S-43 the same thing as the JRS-1?

Yes

I've got some original Hughes sales literature for this airplane that should probably go with it.
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I'd contact Kermit directly. Either through his Facebook page or the Fantasy Of Flight page.

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Sorry, first chance to get on here since yesterday morning...

Yep, Kermit got the S-43. I got close in that I guessed it might be a seaplane, but that's as close as I ever got. Glad to see her going to an excellent home and a plane he can certainly fly more often than the Sunderland.

A a matter of fact it is NOT.
The JRS-1 (17 USN, 5 USAAC) is based on the S-43 but being a military aircraft would naturally have different equiptment (radios, camera mounts and doors, etc) but the differences go further. The outboard section of the wings sport significant upward dihdral, there are cargo/egress doors installed on both sides of the fuselage, different landing gear shock assembly installation, and additional external bracing of the forward fuselage.
The JRS-1 have the same engines of the standard S-43, Pratt & Whitney Hornet R-1690-52 radials, @750 hp. The Hughes/ Weeks S-43 has 1,100 Wright Cyclones, an option on the Twin Tailed S-43B.

The JRS-1 is also armed.

Maybe so, but I'd bet that the Army didn't call it a "JRS-1" since that's a Navy designation.

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You are correct Rajay...the USAAC designated their 5 examples OA-8. They also designated the one off "Vanderbilt Air Yacht" OA-11 after pressing it into service.