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The Bristol Type 192 was a development of the unsuccessful Type 173, designed in response to an RAF requirement for a general purpose, land based, heavy lift helicopter. It first flew on 5 Jul 1958 at Filton with tandem wooden rotor blades, a completely manual control system and a castored, fixed quadricycle undercarriage. 
From the fifth airframe, the rotors fitted were all-metal, 4 bladed units. Production model controls and instruments allowed night operations and a true single engine-out flight, if one of the 1465hp Napier Gazelle engines failed. The Belvedere could take 30 seated passengers or 6000lb (2700kg) of internal freight. An external freight hook was fitted, allowing a 5250lb (2380kg) load to be underslung.
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| C/N | Built as | Year | History | | 13342  | | 1958 |  XG447 : Single prototype airframe ff 5 Jul 1958 at Bristol's Weston-super-Mare plant, dd 31 Mar 1959 to Royal Air Force, soc, broken up at Boscombe Down on 7 Aug 1966.
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| 13343 | | 1960 | XG448 : RAF
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| 13344 | | 1960 | XG449 : RAF 72 Sqdn; went to 66 sqdn; broken up 1969 Seletar
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| 13345 | | 1960 | XG450 : RAF
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| 13346 | | 1960 | XG451 : RAF
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 | 13347 | | 1960 | XG452 : RAF Belvedere Type 192 HC.1; 24jul93 pictured preserved at International Helicopter Museum (IHM), Weston-Super-Mare
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| 13348 | | 1960 | XG453 : RAF
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| 13349 | | 1960 | XG454 : 7th pre-production airframe dd 17 Oct 1960. Belvedere Trials Unit Oct 1960, crashed 22 Nov 1960 then repaired. Belvedere Trials Unit Mar 1961, crashed again 30 Aug 1960. To 8366M. To Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK.
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| 13350 | | | XG455 : RAF
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| 13351 | | | XG456 : RAF
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| 13352 | | | XG457 : RAF
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| 13353 | | | XG458 : RAF
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| 13354 | | | XG459 : RAF
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| 13355 | | | XG460 : RAF
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| 13356 | | | XG461 : RAF; w/o 31dec64
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| 13357 | | | XG462 : RAF; preserved (nose) at Weston-Super-Mare helicopter museum
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16 C/N found.
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