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Gyrodyne QH-50D DASH (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), c/n DS-1482, was delivered to The Museum on 2nd October 2014 after transport by road from Liverpool Docks where it had arrived on 22 September 2014 after shipment from the port of Long Beach, California. Crating for shipment had been carried out by the Robinson Helicopter Company at their nearby Torrance facility.
This unmanned, radio-controlled, surveillance and anti-submarine helicopter, with coaxial, contra-rotating rotors, built in mid-1966, was one of more than 800 produced, in different versions, by the Gyrodyne Company in St.James, Long Island, New York. This and other production examples of the QH-50D were powered by one 365 shp (272 kW) Boeing T50-BO-12 turboshaft engine, built in Seattle. |
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