Posts Tagged ‘1953’
H-23B
Moody AFB, GA
17 Dec 1953
S/N 51-16266 Panama City News-Herald (Panama City, FL.)Fri, Dec. 18 1953, page 1 http://www.accident-report.com/Yearly/1953/5312.html H-23B #51-16266, piloted by Robert P. Mace, was involved in an accident about 3 miles east north east of Ray City, GA. Also on this helicopter was the commander of the 3550th Training Group at Moody AFB, GA., Col. Dean Davenport,…
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YH-21
Thule AB, Greenland
17 Nov 1953
S/N 50-1240 Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, CA)Thu, Nov 19, 1953 Four Airmen Die in Greenland Helicopter Crash Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. (AP) The air proving ground command reported yesterday a late-type Arctic rescue helicopter crashed Tuesday in Greenland, killing its four-man crew. The plane, the YH-21 made by Piasecki, was in the last…
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H-19A
Hancock Field, NY
31 Jul 1953
S/N 51-3896 The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY.)31 July 1953, page 1 Six Die in Crash of Big Helicopter O’Neill, Neb – A giant Air Force helicopter which stopped in Syracuse last Friday during a cross-country flight, crashed and burned yesterday near O’Neill, Neb., claiming the lives of six persons. Dr. Guenter Loeser, 40, leadiing German meteorological…
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H-5H
Maxwell AFB, AL
10 Oct 1953
S/N 50-1240 The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, NB.)Wed, Oct. 21, 1953 2 Airmen Killed In Helicopter Crash Montgomery, Ala. (INS) — An Air Force helicopter Tuesday fell 200 feet to the ground at Maxwell AFB and burst into flames, killing its crew of two. Names of the crewmen were withheld pending notification of next of kin.…
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