Helicopter Westland Wessex HAS.1 Serial wa 18 Register XM837 used by Westland ,Ministry of Defence (MoD) ,Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1961. Aircraft history and location
HMS Blake 2 Jul 1971 Aboard HMS Blake as 820 Sq / 411-BL, while in Portsmouth
737 Sq Norfolk Flt/407-NF by Jan 1975, deployed from Norfolk onto RFA Olwen Feb 1976 to Mar 1976, 737 Sq Glamorgan Flt/400-GL by Mar 1981, still May 1981.
at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) 1981 Air Day, operated by 737 Sq, HMS Glamorgan Flight. Destroyed less than a year later during the Falklands War whilst on board HMS Glamorgan
HMS Glamorgan Exocet hit As HAS.3 737 Sq/400-GL on HMS Glamorgan, when destroyed by land-based Exocet missile on 12 Jun 1982, 16.5 nm NE of Lively Island.
Westland Wessex HAS.3 Westland trials and evaluation airframe until very early in 1966, when it entered conversion to HAS.3, emerging for its ff as such on 8 Aug 1967 and issue to Royal Navy.
