Sikorsky S-55's at Chandler, Az. Where did they go?

[Craig59]

Up until last year at Chandler Memorial in AZ., there were between fifty and sixty Sikorsky S-55 variants including at least 8 Marine Corps HRS's. Anyone know to where they were trucked off?

www.hrs-helicopter.com has been updated as of the 24th and will be updated again in a day or two.

[Pooner]

Good memory.

All still inventory owned by WhisperJet out of Florida. The stored spares at Chandler Memorial were all moved to a piece of private property out toward Casa Grande when the Gila River Indian Community's Airport Board opted not to renew any existing leases and close the airstrip.

The fellow in charge of this removal performed this operation in what could be best described as "military precision" - each airframe left the strip on a flatbed truck, the fence was removed and he even raked the area to clean the desert floor of Sikorsky debris the size of a coin. One is hard pressed to walk the storage area today and find anything remaining from all of the stored H-19/S-55s.

[CAPFlyer]

Craig,

Great site.

One question though - in the database you have a star (*) next to some of the BuNo's. What does this mean? You do not have a note to explain it.

[Craig59]

Craig,

Great site.

One question though - in the database you have a star (*) next to some of the BuNo's. What does this mean? You do not have a note to explain it.

CAPFlyer,

Thank you for the compliment. Check out page two of the website, "About The Database." The asterick denotes BuNo's which my Dad flew.