Intrepid official Eric Boehm says the Sikorsky S-55 operated for years at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field as a Coast Guard rescue helicopter. "There's no way to know how many lives it saved," he says.
Later a crop-duster in Texas, it was recently acquired by the Intrepid from a defunct aircraft museum and refurbished. It is painted in original yellow Coast Guard colors.
The S-55 was a civilian version of the H-19 Chickasaw, used by the U.S. military to carry troops in Korea and later in Vietnam.
----
Click here for more New York and Tri-State News
