Westland Dragonfly HR.1

C/N wa/h/021

Built 1950 Dragonfly HR.5





Helicopter Westland Dragonfly HR.1 Serial wa/h/021 Register VZ962 used by Flambards Experience ,Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1950 Converted to Dragonfly HR.5. Aircraft history and location





Aircraft History





VZ962

united kingdom Fleet Air Arm

ff 18 May 1950 and del RNAS Gosport 13 Oct 1950. 705Sqn by Nov 1950. Believed Cat 4 accident 1952.
1954-08 A Donibristle Repair
Westland Dragonfly HR.3 Repaired Westland and con to HR.3 by 1953. 705Sqn/703-GJ by Feb 1954. Tail rotor clipped ground 9 Jul 1954, repaired RNAY Donibristle by Aug 1955. 705 NAS

Westland Dragonfly HR.5 To Lee-on-Solent by Oct 1956 for conv to HR.5. Brawdy Stn Flt/904-BY by Mar 1958. RNAY Fleetlands by Sep 1961 after Cat 4 accident. To Whale Island for blast trials, where further damage sustained. To BRNC Dartmouth by Aug 1964 as GI. SoC Sep 1964.
1968-06 B HMS Thunderer G I Airframe To RNEC Manadon Jun 1968 until c Aug 1972.
1978 C Norton Heliport, Dartmouth G I Airframe To BRNC Dartmouth for much of 1974, G I Airframe at Norton site by , airframe incomplete (parts recovery ?) by Jul 1981.

united kingdom Flambards Experience

1981-07 D Clodgey Lane Exhibit To Cornwall Aero Park by Jul 1981 (marked /912-CU) and restored, until at least Jul 1989.

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1990 E EGFI Exhibit to British Rotorcraft Museum W-s-M by , still Dec 1993. To Malta (date ?)

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2020-09 F MTTAQ Stored in pieces in Malta Aviation Museum by Sep 2020.




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