Mark 1 Models is to release in October in 1:144 scale the Sikorsky H-34/S-58 ‘Special Service’ with interesting variations of type and marking options including the Westland Wessex prototype

Colour schemes included in the kit:

  • Sikorsky HSS-1 (SH-34/UH-34G) Seabat, BuNo 141602 (c/n 58-265, G-17-1), Black G17-1, Westland Aircraft trials a/c, RNAY Fleetlands, Hampshire, and Yeovil airfield, Somerset, U.K., June 1956;
  • Westland Wessex WS-58 prototype (Sikorsky HSS-1), XL722, Westland Aircraft trials a/c, A&AEE Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, U.K., summer 1956
  • Sikorsky HUS-1 (UH-34D) Seahorse, BuNo 148767 (c/n 58-1318), White ET-44, HMR(L)-262 (Marine Helicopter Squadron (Light), 1st Marine Air Wing (MAW), U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, U.S.A., during Mercury-Redstone 3 capsule recovery, North Atlantic Ocean, 5 May 1961
  • Sikorsky HUS-1G (HH-34F) Seahorse, 1336 (c/n 58-1063), Air Station St. Petersburg, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) St. Petersburg, Albert Whitted Airport, Florida, U.S.A., crashed during a mission in the Gulf of Mexico, 29 November 1962
  • Sikorsky HUS-1A (UH-34E) Seabat, BuNo 144655 (c/n 58-510), Black JD-26/4655, VX-6 (Air Development Squadron), U.S. Navy, Naval Air Station (NAS) Quonset Point, Rhode Island, U.S.A., during ‘Operation Deep Freeze III’, Little America Station (LAS), Antarctica, 1957-58

This injection-moulded kit contains 44 parts and 7 clear parts (the cockpit canopy and the fuselage windows). A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included. More details @ Mark 1 Models

MKM144173L - Sikorsky H-34/S-58 ‘Special Service’ – 1:144

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