These started out as Sikorsky, BUT, the rights for these birds was bought out, and the civil versions for fire-fighting are completely rebuilt frames. I thought we were going to have the official FAA registry
There are a lot of the ex-military machines that when in warbird status are sometimes registered with their military c/n. If we have dupe profiles for every aircraft that someone makes a new one because the FAA data base doesn't have the c/n instead of the military serial or BuNo, we'll end up with a whole lot of extra profiles.
I guess my thinking was that if another profile doesn't serve a purpose except being sentimental about manufacturers (and I'm that way too - I'd go with Sikorsky if I was telling anyone who built it!) perhaps it shouldn't be added to the mix. With this particular aircraft it splits the photos.
I'm sort of "Monkish" about things being tidy :
Glenn