C/N wa157
Built 1963 -
Scrapped 1995 | | |
Helicopter Westland Wessex HU.5 Serial wa157 Register XS483 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1963. Aircraft history and location
XS483 | | | | Westland Wessex HU.5, c/n WA157, f/f:? del Royal Navy as XS483, 25/01/1964 scr. Lee-on-Solent, 1995. | 1964-02 | | A EGDR | 700V IFTU/E by Feb 1964, 848Sq/E by May 1964, 848Sq/E-A by Dec 1964 still by Mar 1966 700 NAS | 1966-10-11 | E-A | B Okehampton Camp | damaged undercarriage leg while landing at Okehampton, returned to Culdrose where it was fixed in the hover. 848 NAS | 1968-07 | E-CU | A EGDR | 846Sq/E-CU by Jul 1968 to c Oct 1969, 845Sq/F-B by Jan 1970 846 NAS | 1971-10-31 | F-B | C LMML | 845 Sq/F-B by May 1971. Damaged during tornado at RAF Luqa on 31 Oct 1971. 845 NAS RAF Luqa tornado | | | 845Sq/F-H by Sep 1973. 846Sq/VH-B by Jul 1979. 845 NAS | 1982-04-02 | T | D GBROY | 845Sq /T, landed on RFA Resource at Rosyth on 2 Apr 1982, for South Atlantic. 845 NAS Operation Corporate | | | 845Sq/T by Sep 1984 flying from HMS Fearless To A2746 at Lee-on-Solent by May 1995 scr. Lee-on-Solent by Dec 1995. |
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