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