Legacy Renewed By Jan Feighner
The museum contacted a plastics company that specialized in molding acrylic aircraft bubbles. Some adjustments to the fiberglass mold were necessary before shipping it to that company for molding. When finished, the windscreen was returned then trimmed to size.
The next step was the installation. Although the trial fitting of the fiberglass skin proved successful, the plaster model was not built to a factory blueprint, therefore the fit wasn’t close enough to install it using the factory method. Instead, the crew successfully bonded it in place with a high-strength silicone aerospace adhesive.
“We’re fortunate to have restored the first Sikorsky HOS-1 that was involved in the first Coast Guard large-scale air rescue,” stated Douglass Schaeffer, AHMEC’s head of restoration. “This is the first complete restoration from start to finish that was done entirely in-house, for a total of 4,000 hours. It is also the only HOS-1 on display anywhere.”
Visit the American Helicopter Museum & Education Center’s website at www.
americanhelicopter.museum.
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