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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:HO4S-3 Chickasaw
    Last Military Serial:55877 RCN
    Construction Number:55-0877
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky HO4S-3 sn 55877 RCN cn 55-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a HO4S-3.

    1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 55877.

    1970

    To Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
    Built in 1955, this S-55, known as Shearwater Angel, served the RCN for fifteen years until 1970, when it was retired and donated to the Museum. It participated in eight rescue missions and was credited with rescuing thirty-two people and four animals over its lifetime. Eight maple leaves decorate the nose of the helicopter, one for each rescue mission. Its most famous mission was its rescue of twenty-one crew members of the Liberian freighter Kismet II, along with the ships dog and cat, which took place on November 26, 1955 off the coast of Cape Breton Island.
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    Markings Applied: 4

    1994


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photo taken at the National Aviation Museum.

    15 September 2013


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 2013 photo at Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa-Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)

    11 December 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: This photo was taken at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
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