RON PLANTE COLLECTION
No. 14026. Sikorsky S-58JT (N4247V c/n 58-1547) Midwest Truxton International
Photographed at Iowa City Airport, Iowa, USA, June 10, 2021, by Ron Plante

Sikorsky S-58JT

12/15/2021. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "This aircraft was ordered under the USN BuNo 150754 as a Sikorsky Type 58 HSS-1N Seabat. It was completed to CH-34C standard for West German Army under the designation H-34G.III. In German service it was coded QB+483, later as QW+404, finally as 80+70.

After withdrawn from German service it was sold to the USA where it was register as N83829 and subsequently converted to a turbine powered S-58ET. It was sold to Peru, where it was registered as OB-T-1008. By December 8, 1983, it had been registered as an S-58JT, N4247V, to Midwest Truxton International at Burr Ridge, Illinois, USA, and still is as of this day.


Created December 15, 2021