Aircraft N15067

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Sikorsky S-43

Does anyone know the history of this plane and what actually happened to this? Thanks in advance to anyone that can share information. :)

Helicopterfriend

A couple of sites with some information

http://www.logbookmag.com/databases/articles.asp?ID=91&CatID=47

NC 15067, Sikorsky S-43, notes: C/n 4307, delivered to Pan Am in March 1936. Pan Am assigned this Baby Clipper to Panair do Brasil, registered PP-PAR. Conflicting sources indicate that this aircraft either crashed or was otherwise destroyed. The fate of this Sikorsky S-43 is not known.

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=13984

Constructed as a S-43.

Sikorsky S-43 4307

On 29 October 1936

Civil registration, N15067, cancelled.

Exported to Brazil.

To Pan American Airways Inc, New York, NY with c/r N15067 (S-43, 4307).

Civil registration, N15067, cancelled.

Deregistered. Exported to Brazil.

Walt

L-5jockey

Some more info of NC15067 (data /pix from a news article, by Peter M. Bowers published in 1997- GAN newspaper)

photo# 2 caption. Look, Dad, no wheels! Several S-43s were delivered as flying boats rather than amphibians, and others later became boats.

This is Pan American's NC15067. the seventh S-43 built.

It had the standard bow, single tail and straight wingtips. Atter Pan Am transferred it to its Brazilian subsidiary, it had an engine fire and sank in 1937.

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Another source lists it as DBR on 08 Feb 1937 at Vitoria

John