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Description
| Notes: Amphibious search/rescue transport (3 CREW) . | |||
| Manufacturer: | Sikorsky |
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| Base model: | H-52 | ||
| Designation: | HH-52 | ||
| Version: | A | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | ||
| Designation Period: | 1948-Present | ||
| Basic role: | Helicopter | ||
| Modified Mission: | Search and Rescue | ||
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Specifications
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Performance
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| American Helicopter Museum | West Chester | Pennsylvania |
| Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New Jersey | Teterboro | New Jersey |
| Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum | New York | New York |
| Mid-Atlantic Air Museum | Reading | Pennsylvania |
| National Museum of Naval Aviation | NAS Pensacola | Florida |
| New England Air Museum | Windsor Locks | Connecticut |
| Pima Air & Space Museum | Tucson | Arizona |
| Selfridge Military Air Museum | Selfridge ANG Bas | Michigan |
| USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park | Mobile | Alabama |
HH-52A on display
American Helicopter Museum | Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New Jersey | Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum | Mid-Atlantic Air Museum | |
National Museum of Naval Aviation | New England Air Museum | Pima Air & Space Museum | Selfridge Military Air Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Randy Lennox Yeovil (home = Mesa, AZ), AZ | Wow...what a site! Was AD type in Annette \'70-71. Became HU-16 & HH-52 qual\'d on the Island. Many good (bad??) nights at the Muskeg - bingo was always popular. Long ALPATS in the Goats (still can\'t hear). Did recovery clean-up of the Alaska Airlines 727 that kissed a mountain on approach to Juneau, where we did R/H main-mount only touch downs at >9K feet to load body bags. Didn\'t thing the old girl could do it - but we stripped everything out of the cabin and lined it with plastic sheeting. Did a number of mail and movie runs to those poor SOBs at Cape Decision Light (Google it, you\'ll see what I mean) - \"Special VFR\" Alaska rules would probably blanch most lower-48 pilots. Moved to CGAS LOSA - 71-76, and went straight to the engine shop to build up a couple of T-58s that were left in boxes. Lots and Lots of SAR, (much of with only 2 people in the helo), too many late-night calls to ask if the grunion are running, too many false flare sightings off Catalina or Huntington Beach, several deployments on the back of the Venturous (you ain\'t lived until you\'ve done a night landing on a rolling 210!), lots of hoist training with 40\' boat crews in LB harbor, and plunking into the water to fetch the wheel chocks we threw out. Loved floating around in the blue Pacific and taking a whiz while standing on the platform (probably can\'t do THAT now, eh?). Flew and maintained the 1390, 1442, 1447,..and a couple others that I can\'t remember. DO remember Shelly Gale, Gary Combs, Reg Vanderpool, Booby (BC) Cohen, Dale Clay, Dan Block, Turbine Tom White, Louie Levy, LtCdr Hap Litts, wild-man Herb Johnson was Ops officer, and many others. Recommend ya\'ll snoop around Fred\'s Place - http://www.fredsplace.org/ it\'s got a \"reunion page\" that\'s pretty cool. 09/01/2008 @ 02:02 [ref: 22590] |
| Doug Stephan (CDR) Meadow Vista, CA | Nice! I was just trying to Google up a picture of the venerable "Seaguard" to show some young pups I work with in SF Bay Area EMS and ran across you old goats!! HA! I guess I'm the young pup here cuz I didn't get into the '52 until '86, but I did get to fly one to the desert from North Bend in '88, with Alda Siebrands and AM1 Ray Sawyer. What a great plane, but then I'm a '55 Chevy kind of guy, never did bond with the '65.
I don't know many of the names in the posts, but I sure recognize some from the list. Here's a couple more from those great North Bend days: Jeff Barker (he works with me now at REACH Air Medical in CA), Al Seidel, Tony (Tiny) Zimmer, Mike Lovett, Dave Wade, Chris Weisman and Jim Cross. I still keep in touch with John Miko and Kurt Carlson too. Good stuff fellas. "If you ain't never done a Rough Water Platform Pickup, you ain't s___!" 04/11/2008 @ 23:37 [ref: 20481] |
| Larry Rogers , SD | Re. Ken Farmer, San Diego.
I crewed HH52a's out of Annette, AK for about 3 years in the late 60's through 1970. Plane Captain on #1366. Wondered if you are the Ken Farmer stationed there in about 1969? Great helo, flew 40 hours a month, every month, for a year and a half with Rod Martin, Jerry Taylor, _ Breault, Charlie Brown and Alex Klimschuk(sp?). Only had to fly 4 hours to get flight pay, but hey, I got a lot of stick time for an AD. Pretty good safety record considering we were flying searches/medivacs single engine over a lot of water, unpopulated territory and at night. LR 03/17/2008 @ 09:53 [ref: 20060] |
| Matt Sprague Layton, UT | Shelley - you gave me my check ride in Cape May in 78 to become a -52 crew - and I remember you (before there were rescue swimmers) going off the platform to swim over and check out a PHI Puma that had crashed and broken into 3 pieces from a MGB failure on its way to an oil rig. I also remember that anyone smoking in the helo would make you airsick LOL....Tom - didn't you get to hoist Charlie's Angels in LA one time a long time ago?
and yah, I've moved to UT - CA was getting too weird for this old country boy... Cheers! Matt 01/25/2008 @ 12:12 [ref: 19426] |
| Shelley Gale Klamath Falls, OR | Flew on the 52's in CGAS Los Angeles from 1972 to 1976 then at CGAS Cape May from 1976 to 1979. Wow the memories that this page brings back! I loved fishing from the rescue platform while floating on the water....never caught anything though. Especially loved the water fights and the volley ball with all the guys. Thanks Mike Cusson for giving me the link. 11/30/2007 @ 07:43 [ref: 18731] |
| Mike Cusson (AD3) Salem, OR | Logged lots of hours in the 1375, 1455, 1447 during the early 70's. CGAS LOSA and E-City. I ran into one of my friends from that era last year and we reminisced for hours. Found out he lives three hours down I-5.
I have very fond memories of those helos and times in L.A. -Mike 11/29/2007 @ 18:12 [ref: 18729] |
| Tom Justice , SC | Ah, the 1428. I can remember testing the FLIR system with the guys from Northrop as we flew down the beaches of Los Angeles and video taped the couples screwing on the beach at night. Good times. I can also remember the day when I was the crewman with CDR Milsaps as the pilot and the Northrop ground crew hover-taxied us into the telephone pole. We dropperd like a rock with our four foot rotor blades. Spent the next two weeks with Ronis and Henneman rebuilding the drive train out there in Fullerton. 10/11/2007 @ 13:15 [ref: 18162] |
| Matt Sprague Ramona, CA | Hey, Ken - (dang - name is so familiar - did we do E City at the ATTC?)
No, not me at San Diego at that time - I came in in '76 - didn't get to CGAS SD until '90 - retired here in '96. If I can make it on 22 Sept - I'll try to bring along Bob Lowry ADC (ret) - you might know him as well. Cheers! MDS 09/13/2007 @ 23:20 [ref: 17921] |
| Ken Farmer San Diego, CA | Hey Sprague..are you the same Sprague that flew out of CGAS San Diego in the late 60's/early 70's?
If so, we're having a get together for all the guys on Sept 22nd at 11:00 at Johnny B's in LaMesa. Good beer and burgers. Having a reunion as Bill Dodzian has terminal cancer and we're having a send off for him while we still got him. Expect about 20 of the old guys, from Chief's to 3rd classes. Ken 09/12/2007 @ 19:57 [ref: 17913] |
| ron , CT | There is a great book about the HH-52A titled "Sikorsky HH-52A" by author Lennart Lundh. It includes info about each ship by serial number, and where it is located today. Buy it at Amazon.com 08/15/2007 @ 05:51 [ref: 17610] |
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