Piasecki HRP Rescuer series
Last updated on: April 8, 2018
This is just for those helos that received Navy/Marine Corps Bureau Numbers.
At the end of this page is a list of people who have graciously offered their help. Thank you all very much!
XHRP-1 first prototype b/n 37968
*Never officially accepted by the US Navy?
*3/1945: First flight? Date?
*1947: HMX-1.
*Currently preserved at the NASM, Silver Hill, MD.
XHRP-1 second prototype b/n 37969
*Cancelled? Or was this for 37968?
HRP-1 b/n 111809
*Was preserved at the New England Air Museum, CT.
*Currently preserved at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, PA.
HRP-1 b/n 111810
*1949: VX-1.
*11/22/1949: Crashed into the sea off Key West, FL due to transmission failure.
HRP-1 b/n 111811
*1948: HMX-1.
HRP-1 b/n 111812
*Sold on the civilian market and registered as N76V.
HRP-1 b/n 111813
*1951-53: Bailed to NACA at Langley AFB, VA.
*NAS Lakehurst Base Flight.
HRP-1 b/n 111814
*Sold on the civilian market and registered as N47R.
HRP-1 b/n 111815
*2/25/1948: Crashed near the Piasecki factory during a check-out flight. Pilot was killed. Repaired?
*1949: HU-2 as UR-9.
HRP-1 b/n 111816
*Transferred to the US Coast Guard as 816.
HRP-1 b/n 111817
*Sold on the civilian market and registered as N7832C.
HRP-1 b/n 111818
*--info needed.--
HRP-1 b/n 111819
*HMX-1.
HRP-1 b/n 111820
*HMX-1.
*Sold on the civilian market and registered as N4978V.
HRP-1 b/n 111821
*1948: Transferred to the US Coast Guard as 1821.
*1951: CGAS Elizabeth City Base Flight.
*1951: Returned to the US Navy.
HRP-1 b/n 111822
*--info needed.--
HRP-1 b/n 111823
*1948: Transferred to the US Coast Guard as 1823.
*1952: Returned to the US Navy. Or in 1951?
*Sold on the civilian market and registered as N10160 and N4015A.
HRP-1 b/n 111824
*1949: HMX-1.
*6/27/1949: Crashed into a marsh near Quantico, VA.
HRP-1 b/n 111825
*--info needed.--
HRP-1 b/n 111826
*1948: Transferred to the US Coast Guard as 1826.
*2/23/1951: Crashed near Chicamacomico, NC
HRP-1 b/n 111827
*Sold on the civilian market and registered as N10161.
HRP-1 b/n 111828
*Sold on the civilian market and registered as N960.
HRP-2 b/n 111829
*Transferred to the US Coast Guard as 1829.
HRP-2 b/n 111830
*Transferred to the US Coast Guard as 1830.
HRP-2 b/n 111831
*HMX-1.
*Transferred to the US Coast Guard as 1831.
*Sold on the civilian market and registered as N961.
*Currently preserved at the America Museum? State?
HRP-2 b/n 111832
*HMX-1 as XM-8.
*Transferred to the US Coast Guard as 1832.
*Sold on the civilian market and registered as N3916A.
HRP-2 b/n 111833
*Transferred to the US Coast Guard as 1833.
HRP-1 b/n 111834
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111835
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111836
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111837
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111838
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111839
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111840
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111841
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111842
*Possibly never built?
*Perhaps civilian N7837C?
HRP-1 b/n 111843
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111844
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111845
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111846
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111847
*Possibly never built?
HRP-1 b/n 111848
*Possibly never built?
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For their assistance in various parts of this project, I would like to give thanks to the following individual
people...
Tjalling Boelman
Joe Bairn
