Gallery Model Aircraft 1/48 CH-34 US Army Rescue Kit

The H-34 series was one of Sikorsky's most popular helicopters ever produced (next to the Blackhawk). The aircraft first flew in March 1954 and entered service with the US Army as the CH-34 Choctaw, the US Navy as the HSS-1 Seabat (anti-submarine version) and the HUS-1 Seahorse (utility version which was also flown by the US Marine Corps). After the Secretary of Defense McNamara's standardization of military aircraft designations in 1962, the H-34 remained CH-34 for the Army while the Choctaw became the SH-34 and the Seahorse became the UH-34.

The aircraft was typically powered by a Wright R1820 radial engine of 1,525 horsepower. The aircraft was employed in a wide range of missions from passenger service, troop transport, medevac, supply, and for a short time as a gunship in Vietnam. The aircraft was rugged, versatile and adaptable for duty in a wide range of environmental and operational conditions.

Features and Options:

• Very detailed flight deck
• Pilots' seats have photo-etched restraints
• Positionable flight deck windows
• Choice of web seats, canvas seats, or stretchers in main cabin
• Seats in main cabin have photo-etched seat belts
• Nose doors are positionable to reveal engine bay
• Positionable main cabin door
• VERY detailed R1820 with cooling shrouds and exhaust
• Photo-etched grilles around engine comparment
• Main cabin detailing is very nice with cabin sidewalls molded separately from fuselage halves
• Rear of main cabin open into detailed rear fuselage
• Vented rear of doghouse is incredibly molded with see-through venting
• Tail can be posed folded or flight-ready
• Main rotors molded with gravity sag
• New bent-legged landing gear

Markings for two different aircraft

• H-34A, 54465, MEDIVAC, US Army
• H-34A, 71743, utility aircraft, US Army