Whatever happened to the Danish Air Force SeaKing's?

JPS · Post by **JPS** » 23 Dec 2018, 17:14

In 2010 the Danish Defence Logistics Organization sold its Sea King fleet. In total, seven S-61 helicopters and accompanying spare parts and accessory packs were sold to Helicopter Support Inc., owned by Sikorsky Aircraft Inc .

Sikorsky announced to upgrade the Danish S-61 helicopters to S-61T standard and to resell them to the U.S. State Department for Civil Aviation in Iraq within the year. However since then it seems they have vanished...

Can anybody clarify what happened to them? This is what I could find from multiple sources on the net about the status of the S-61 fleet of Danmark:

U-240 61-240 Flyvevåbnets museum
U-275 61-275 Helicopter Support Inc. USA. departed Karup 14-10-2011
U-276 61-276 Helicopter Support Inc. USA. departed Karup 02-11-2011
U-277 61-277 Helicopter Support Inc. USA. departed Karup 28-10-2011
U-278 61-278 Helicopter Support Inc. USA. departed Karup 14-10-2011
U-279 61-279 Helicopter Support Inc. USA. departed Karup 13-10-2011
U-280 61-280 Helicopter Support Inc. USA. departed Karup 24-10-2011
U-281 61-281 crashed 10-02-1968
U-481 61-481 Helicopter Support Inc. USA. departed Karup 28-11-2011

Antilliaan · Post by **Antilliaan** » 23 Dec 2018, 17:31

All seven that are listed with Helicopter Support Inc are stored with Carson Helicopters in Perkasie, Pennsylvania in their main hangar since at least October 2015.

JPS · Post by **JPS** » 23 Dec 2018, 17:41

Thx Antilliaan, much appreciated!

Do you know what registrations they have?

Antilliaan · Post by **Antilliaan** » 23 Dec 2018, 18:02

They still carry their Danish serials as far as I know.

JPS · Post by **JPS** » 27 Dec 2018, 19:18

Antilliaan wrote:They still carry their Danish serials as far as I know.

I received confirmation from Carson that these are still in their indoor storage as potential candidates for rebuild.

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