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westland sioux

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
1965/75	23	Royal Marines
			1968/75	3 commando brigade air squadron	Sembawang 1968/71

Construction Numbers on database of sioux or its versions
1		Police Mobile Unit
1		Army Air Corps

Construction Numbers of this Model:	Help Us

C/N	Built as	Year	History
WA423		1966	XT511 : Took part in Police use of Helicopter trials (1967) wearing ARMY and Police marks, from Lippitts Hill. Sold to South Africa.
WA606			PMU-6 : Soloy-Bell 47G-3B1, cn WA606, ff:?; del British Army as XT844, unk; to UK civil register as G-BERO, unk; to Switzerland as HB-XHM, unk; to Lesotho Police Mobile Unit as PMU-6, Apr81; to Lesotho Defence Force as LDF-6, unk; sold South Africa as ZS-RTO, unk.

2 C/N found.



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