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westland sioux


Derived from agusta ab47

1965        


Model History:

Westland produced version of the Agusta Bell 47G, primarily for the Army Air Corps, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force.

3 seat observation and basic training machine, with large forward plexiglass bubble canopy and a skeletal, triangular section tail boom with a small ventral fillet. Powered by a single Lycoming piston engine, fed with fuel from two high level mounted external tanks and driving a 2 bladed single rotor with short inertial stabilising minor blades.

Built at the Old Mixon (Weston-super-Mare) and Hayes (Middlesex) factories, with the first Westland model flying on 9 Mar 1965.



Organisations / Units with this Model:

From Del'd Rotary wing aircraft units (bold=current)Bases/Heliports
1965/78 193 Army Air Corps
1969/77     662 squadron
1969/now     Historic Aircraft FlightAAC Middle Wallop
1965/75 23 Royal Marines
1968/75     3CBAS SGSembawang 1968/71




Construction Numbers on database of sioux or its versions

16sioux




Construction Numbers of this Model: Help Us    

C/NBuilt asYearHistory
    wa310 Army Air Corps XT151 : AAC Historic Flight
    wa311 Army Air Corps XT152 : AAC Sioux AH.1
    wa316 Army Air Corps XT157 : AAC Sioux AH.1
    wa317 Army Air Corps XT158 : AAC Sioux AH.1
    wa318 Army Air Corps XT159 : AAC
    wa320 Army Air Corps XT161 : AAC
    wa322 Army Air Corps XT163 : AAC
    wa323 1965 Army Air Corps XT164 : AAC
    wa325 Army Air Corps XT166 : AAC
    wa328 Army Air Corps XT169 : AAC
    wa330 1965 Army Air Corps XT171 : AAC
    wa332 1967 Army Air Corps XT173 : AAC
    wa333 Army Air Corps XT174 : AAC
    wa423 1966 Army Air Corps XT511 : Took part in Police use of Helicopter trials (1967) wea+
    wa606 Police Mobile Unit PMU-6 : Soloy-Bell 47G-3B1, cn WA606, ff:?; del British Army as+
    wa723 1969 Westland G-17-8 : Westland/Bell 47G-4A, to G-AXKS
Bristow G-AXKS : Bristow Helicopter Ltd Jul69-Sep82; preserved at Museum+
    16 C/N found.




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