A place where restoration project-type threads can go to avoid falling off the main page in the WIX hangar. Feel free to start threads on Restoration projects and/or warbird maintenance here. Named in memoriam for Gary Austin, a good friend of the site and known as RetroAviation here. He will be sorely missed.
Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:57 am
We are looking for three Sikorsky H-19 rotor blades. Static display only. cosmetic defects ok as long as they can be made to look decent. Email me at
b25guy@hotmail.com. thanks Chris
Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:09 pm
There used to be an outfit in Sanford, Florida that dealt with H-19s. Oralndo Helicopters? I don't know if they are around anymore. Maybe someone in that area may know. They may have some contacts in your part of the country.
Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:38 am
ProfromDover wrote:There used to be an outfit in Sanford, Florida that dealt with H-19s. Oralndo Helicopters? I don't know if they are around anymore. Maybe someone in that area may know. They may have some contacts in your part of the country.
Fred Clark's Orlando Helicopter Airways is now run by his son as Vertical Aviation Technologies. All the S-55 airframes and spares were sold to Whisper Jet well over a decade ago and all are in storage in Arizona for possible conversion to QS-55 configuration.
Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:49 pm
Craig59 wrote:ProfromDover wrote:There used to be an outfit in Sanford, Florida that dealt with H-19s. Oralndo Helicopters? I don't know if they are around anymore. Maybe someone in that area may know. They may have some contacts in your part of the country.
Fred Clark's Orlando Helicopter Airways is now run by his son as Vertical Aviation Technologies. All the S-55 airframes and spares were sold to Whisper Jet well over a decade ago and all are in storage in Arizona for possible conversion to QS-55 configuration.
I know two areas in southern Az, Chandler Memorial which was closed several years ago and access generally denied by the Indians who own the land and Casa Grande. I could check the Casa Grande site and if there might be others please let me know.
Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:59 pm
C'mon Chris,
You needd to talk the folks into making it a flyer. What an addition it would be to the Vietnam story.
Hope all is well, Rick
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