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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 SGSembawang 1968/71




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


Construction Numbers of this Model: Help Us    

C/NBuilt asYearHistory
    WA423 1966 Army Air Corps XT511 : Took part in Police use of Helicopter trials (1967) wearing ARMY and Police marks, from Lippitts Hill. Sold to South Africa.
    WA606 Police Mobile Unit 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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