Sikorsky S-38 - Operators

Operators

• American Airways
• Andean Corporation
• Canadian Colonial Airways
• Chilean Air Force
• Colonial Western Airways
• Creole Petroleum Corporation - operated out of Maturin, Venezuela.
• Cubana de Aviación
• Curtiss Flying Service
• Inter-Island Airways of Hawaii
• Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano-Lab
• Martin and Osa Johnson
• New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line (NYRBA) - Used for first airmail from Argentina to Miami. All sold to Pan Am in 1930
• NYRBA do Brasil
• Northwest Airways
• Pan American Airways
• Pan American-Grace Airways - Operated out of Lima, Peru
• Pan American Petroleum Company
• Panair do Brasil
• Scadta - Colombia (Today Avianca)
• Svensk Flygtjänst AB (later Swedair)
• United States Army Air Force
• United States Marine Corps
• United States Navy
• Western Air Express

Some famous owners include:

• Aviator and businessman Howard Hughes
• Aviator Charles Lindbergh – Surveyed South American and Pacific Ocean routes for Pan Am with Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
• Robert R. McCormick - Newspaper publisher– Surveyed commercial air routes between North America and Europe.
• Venture capitalist John Hay Whitney – Luxury Transport
• The Flying Hutchinsons – First attempted around-the-world flight by a family.

• Filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson – In the zebra-striped S-38 Osa's Ark, with companion giraffe-patterned S-39 Spirit of Africa, explored Africa extensively, making safari movies and books.
• Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. – Explored the northeastern part of Brazil in search of the carnauba palm, and to research carnauba wax, the source of the world's hardest natural wax. The Spirit of Carnauba, a replica of this aircraft, is on display in Fortaleza Hall on the S. C. Johnson campus.