Aircraft Photo of B-13 | Sikorsky CH-34C Choctaw | Belgium - Air Force | AirHistory.net #795168
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:B-13
Military Code:OT-ZKM
Aircraft Original Type:Sikorsky S-58
Aircraft Generic Type:Sikorsky S-58/H-34/Choctaw/Seahorse
Aircraft Version:Sikorsky CH-34C Choctaw
C/n (msn):58395
Operator Titles:Belgium - Air Force
Location
City / Airport:BeauvechainMap
Country:Belgium
Airport Codes:ICAO: EBBE   IATA: -   Local: -   Other: -
Event:Beauvechain Open Day 1970
 
Photo Date:27 June 1970
Photo from:Jeff Peck Collection (via Tim Spearman)
Photo ID: 795168
Photo Comment

Delivered to SABENA as OO-SHM in January 1957 and flew passenger services from Brussels to Paris Issy heliport. Leased to Elipadana in Milan from April to July 1960 and moved to the Congo in September 1960 for operation in Katanga, the serial KAT44 was allocated but was not believed to have been carried. Retuned to Belgium in September 1962 and taken on charge with the Belgian AF in October 1963 as B13/OT-ZKM. Crashed near Aachen 15th October 1971 and the wreck was stored for several years before being scrapped in 1982.

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