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| Model | Year | History |  westland dragonfly  | 1949 | In December 1946, Westland Aircraft signed an agreement to build under licence the world's first successful operational helicopter, the US Si ... 
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| C/N | Version | Built | History | | 51-02 | | 1946 |  5102 : ex N92800, dd Jul 1951 to Aéronavale. Damaged in Djibouti Sep 1951, Rebuilt with parts from (R-5A ?) 43-46607 Jul 1952. wfu Mar 1955.
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| 51-06 | | 1946 | 5106 : ex N92804, dd Feb 1952 to Aéronavale. Damaged at Arzeus Aug 1953, repaired, wfu Mar 1955 ?
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| 51-17 | | 1947 |  G-AJHW : One of six S-51s imported by Westlands for evaluation and to seed the Dragonfly programme. To UK Admiralty for trials.
WB220 : ex G-AJHW. To RN for a short period in 1949 to begin deck landing trials on HMS Vengeance (R71), whilst problems with the Dragonfly development were still being solved. Returned to Westlands, May 1949 as G-AJHW.
 A80-374 : After more work as G-AJHW, including some Antarctic Survey flights, sold to Canada as CF-JTO. Believed this airframe became A80-374 with RAAF in May 1951. Served with 22 (City of Sydney) Sq 1961, became ground instructional airframe 1964. Preserved RAAF Museum, Point Cook. Help needed to confirm that CF-JTO and A80-374 are the same airframe.
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| 51-36 | | |  47-484 : U.S. Army Air Corps R5F
N92868 Carolinas Aviation Museum: N92868 had been assigned to a U.S. Army Air Corps R-5F BuNo 47-484 a
Sikorsky S-51 c/n 5136 and as Oct09 is currently on display at the
Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte,NC and is on loan from the U.S. Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, VA
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| 51-102 | | |  A1 : SAAF. preserved museum Swartkop (FASK)
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