{"id":1179,"date":"2019-12-10T22:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T05:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimaair.wpengine.com\/?post_type=museum_aircraft&#038;p=1179"},"modified":"2023-03-15T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:04:50","slug":"sikorsky-s-43","status":"publish","type":"museum_aircraft","link":"https:\/\/pimaair.org\/museum-aircraft\/sikorsky-s-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikorsky S-43"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sikorsky S-43 (JRS-1)<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Sikorsky-S-43.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Sikorsky-S-43.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of the Sikorsky S-43 \"Baby Clipper\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Sikorsky S-43 and its military cousin, the JRS-1, were designed in the late 1930s as airliners and military personnel transports.\u00a0 Fifty-three were built between 1937 and 1941 for civilian customers and the U.S. Navy.\u00a0 A total of three S-43\/JRS-1s survive today.\u00a0 Sometimes called the &#8220;Baby Clipper,&#8221; S-43s served with Pan American Airlines and other airlines on shorter routes for which the larger flying boats were not needed.\u00a0 Seventeen of these aircraft were purchased by the Navy with two of them going to the Marine Corps.\u00a0 Although the aircraft displayed at the Pima Air &amp; Space Museum is actually a civil S-43, it has been painted in the U. 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