Airworthy H-21's

[BigGrey]

Other than the Classic Rotors H-21, wasn't there a 2nd one being flown in the midwest or thereabouts 10 years ago? What happened to that one?

Here is a shot of how the CR H-21 looked before it got it's current paint job.

That was interesting going places in that machine.

Les

[T J Johansen]

Am I completely lost here, or did former EAA WofA president Bill Harrison fly one of these in the late 80?

T J

[airnutz]

Other than the Classic Rotors H-21, wasn't there a 2nd one being flown in the midwest or thereabouts 10 years ago? What happened to that one?

I thought there was one based out of Arkansas, but I can't put my finger on it. There are a couple in the FAA registry in Ark. which came out of the Everts scrapyard in Alaska but I haven't been able to find images on the web.
Nothing on Arliners.net, I think I have an issue of Warbirds of America mag with photos of it as polished NMF.
Maybe I'm thinkin of a HUP??

[BigGrey]

I found several pictures of N96244 on airliners site at OSH in 1978. That was the Harrison bird and it crashed at Neosho WI on 3-21-1980.
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=32284&key=0

There are 2 CH-21C's registered to a lady in Springdale AR. N116MH 56-2116 shows an A/W cert issued 3-20-1997. Maybe that is the one that was flying. N106MH 56-2106 shows valid as of 8-22-2000. I haven't found any recent pics of either of those two.

I also saw a magazine article about ten years ago. I seem to remember it being a pretty good write-up with several pics. I just don't remember which mag it was in. Maybe a little more searching will yield something.

Les

[tulsaboy]

The one in Arkansas ( I can't remember which N-number) is flyable. IIRC, the man who restored it got a couple of hulks and restored it to flyable condition as a labor of love. He has since passed, and his daughter has the helicoptor. She is trying to figure out what to do with it, from what I understand.

kevin

[mustangdriver]

There is one sitting at that DC-3 shop on Whittman Field at Oshkosh. I think it is Baslier Flight Services. They EAA usually tows it out to the museum during the show. It looks complete, but not flyable right now.

[262crew]

Air worty no but it looks nice!

[Canso42]

I admit knowing little about helos. Is that the one they called 'the flying bananna?'

Basler Services....? Didn't they make a turbo DC-3 a while back?

Doug

[K5DH]

Basler Services....? Didn't they make a turbo DC-3 a while back?

Yep! They are giving new life to the greatest aerial workhorse of all time. Here's their web site:

http://www.baslerturbo.com/

Cheers!

[Dan K]

Absolutely crappy pic of the banana at Basler.

[Chris Brame]

Nothing a little color correction can't fix:



You're on your own with the chain link fence, however...

[airnutz]

Absolutely crappy pic of the banana at Basler.

I'm getting a bit confused here..Is this a "before" photo of the Basler H-21? The photos 262crew
posted are the same bird? Right"?

[Dan K]

Absolutely crappy pic of the banana at Basler.

I'm getting a bit confused here..Is this a "before" photo of the Basler H-21?

Nope. This pic was taken within the last 12 months, and is how she has looked for at least the last 5 years. When I asked the nice lady at the Basler front desk, she responded that it is simply being stored for the unnamed owner...no current plans for restoration that she was aware of.

[Dan K]

And here's why a better angle isn't possible: The H-21 at Basler is well-defended by Gooneys, a Martin, and barbed wire (Plus the sleet was hard enough to convince me to just shoot pics through the car window ).

[Second Air Force]

The engineless DC-3 on the left of Dan's photo is Tulsaboy's new museum project, originally "Flagship Tulsa" for AA, now being transported back to Tulsa for restoration. Maybe there's room on the trucks for the H-21 too!


Scott