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| national origin=United States
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The '''Sikorsky S-41''' was an amphibious flying boat airliner produced in the United States in the early 1930s.<ref name="Munson"/> Essentially a scaled-up monoplane version of the [[Sikorsky S-38]] biplane flying boat,<ref name="Munson"/> [[Pan Am]] operated the type on routes in the Caribbean, South America, and between [[Boston]] and [[Halifax]].<ref name="Munson"/> The S-41 had a parasol wing configuration, with two radial engines mounted on struts between the fuselage and the wing.<ref name="Munson"/> The cabin was completely enclosed within the all-metal hull<ref name="Munson"/> and could seat 15 passengers.<ref name="JEA">Taylor 1989, p.810</ref><ref name="IEA">''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', p.2932</ref> The United States Navy purchased three examples and designated them '''RS-1'''<ref name="IEA"/><ref>Grossnick 1995, 529</ref>; these were joined by two [[Pan Am]] aircraft impressed into Navy service and designated '''RS-5'''.<ref>Grossnick 1995, 542</ref><ref>the Navy applied the designations '''RS-2''', '''RS-3''', and '''RS-4''' to other models of Sikorsky flying boats; refer to Grossnick 1995, p.530 and p.542 and Andrade 1979, p. 218.</ref>

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==Variants==
* '''S-41A'''<ref name="Munson"/><ref name="Aerofiles">''Aerofiles''</ref>
* '''S-41B'''<ref name="Aerofiles"/>
* '''S-41C'''<ref name="Aerofiles"/>

==Operators==
* [[Pan Am]]<ref name="Munson"/>
* [[United States Navy]]<ref name="JEA"/><ref name="IEA"/>

==Accidents and incidents==
On 28 October 1931, Col [[Thomas C. Turner]], Chief of the Aviation Section of the [[United States Marine Corps]] ferried a Sikorsky RS-1 to [[Port au Prince]], [[Haiti]].<ref name="NAN">Elliott & Gillespie 1975, p.14</ref> After arrival, he was struck by one of the aircraft's propellers<ref name="NYT">''New York Times'' 29 October 1931, p.21</ref> and died from his injuries.<ref name="NAN"/><ref name="NYT"/>

==Specifications (S-41A) ==
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|empty weight lb=8,100
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==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book |last= Andrade |first= John |title= U.S. Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909|year=1979 |publisher=Midland Counties Publications |location=Hinckley, Leicestershire }}
* {{cite journal |title=Colonel T. C. Turner of Marines is Dead |journal=New York Times |date=29 October 1931 |pages=21 |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A1EF83B5D1B7A93CBAB178BD95F458385F9 |accessdate=2010-02-18 }} (payment required to view full article)
* {{cite journal |last=Elliott |first=John M. |coauthors=Clyde W. Gillespie |title=MCAS Quantico |journal=Naval Aviation News |date=May 1975 |pages=9–15 |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backissues/1970s/1975/may75.pdf |accessdate=2010-02-18 }}
* {{cite book |last= Grossnick |first= Roy A. |title=United States Naval Aviation 1910–1995 |year=1995 |publisher=Naval Historical Center |location=Washington D.C. }}
* {{cite book |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft |publisher=Aerospace Publishing |location=London |pages=2932 }}
* {{cite book |last= Munson |first= Kenneth |title=U.S. Commercial Aircraft |year=1982 |publisher=Jane's Publishing |location=London }}
* {{cite web |title=Sikorsky |work=Aerofiles |date=29 April 2009 |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/_sik.html |accessdate=2010-02-18 }}
* {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |pages=810 }}

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