Westland Wessex HU.5

C/N wa153

Built 1963 - Scrapped 2000





Helicopter Westland Wessex HU.5 Serial wa153 Register XS479 used by Royal Marines RM ,Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1963. Aircraft history and location





Aircraft History





XS479

united kingdom Fleet Air Arm

Royal Navy
f/f 17 Nov 1963, d/d 3 Dec 1963 to RN. 1st production HU.5. 700Sq 700V IFTU/A by Dec 1963, 848Sq/A-A by Jun 1964 still Dec 1965 still by Mar 1966, 848Sq/VV-B by Sep 1974. 772Sq/512-PO by May 1976, 772Sq/513-PO by Jul 1979, 772Sq/623-PO before 1982, RNAY Wroughton, 707Sq May 1982, 847 Sq/XF May 1982 772 NAS
1974-05-15B-VV A EHVBat Valkenburg 848 NAS
1982-03-18 B HMS Cambridge772Sq/623-PO noted visiting on 18 Mar 1982 772 NAS
1982-10 C EGDT Stored 8819M at RNAY Wroughton by Oct 1982
1984-07 D EGVN G I Airframe RAF Brize Norton with Joint Air Transport Establishment by by Jul 1984, still Mar 1990, still at Brize Norton Mar 1996
1997-03 E Stock Breakers Yard to Hanningfield Metals, Stock by Mar 1997, scr. 2000.

united kingdom Royal Marines

reactivated 847 NAS 07may-24sep 1982 as /XF 847NAS 1982
1982-05-13 F HMS Raleigh mv Atlantic Causeway 847Sq /XF noted here on 13 May 1982, to join mv Atlantic Causeway later that day for South Atlantic. 847NAS Operation Corporate




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