Chodo Airport
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Ch'o do Airport is an airport in Ch'odo island, Hanggu-guyok, Nampo, South Pyongan Province, North Korea.
A 3d Air Rescue Squadron H-19 from Chodo rescues ace Captain Joseph C. McConnell on 12 April 1953.
Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw
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The Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw is a multi-purpose piston-engined helicopter that was used by the United States Army and United States Air Force. It was also license-built by Westland Aircraft as the West
Chodo Airport
…airfield as K-54, but it was often listed as incomplete or not built. An element of the USAF 3rd Air Rescue Squadron operating Sikorsky H-5s and later Sikorsky H-19s was based on the island from January 1952. Cho-do was regarded as an ideal forward operating base particularly for the rescue of pilots of F-86s damaged…
An Army UH-19D Chickasaw
HRS-1 of the USMC, on display at a museum, 2014
Front three-quarter view of the Sikorsky H-19B Chickasaw helicopter at the National Museum of the United States Air Force showing the engine
UH-19B rotor head, with main rotors folded