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| Del'd: 26 - 1960 to 1969
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First heavy lift and tandem rotor helicopter for the British armed services. Delivered initially to the Belvedere Trials Unit at RAF Odiham (EGVO) in 1960, and after about a year it entered operational service in Sep 1961 as the Belvedere HC.1. It saw service in the UK, the Middle and Far East. It was never hugely successful and was eventually withdrawn in Mar 1969. It did however serve a heavy lift requirement and it was to be 1980 and two false starts later, before the RAF took delivery of the Chinook HC.1 to replace the Belvedere.  |
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| 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:
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| 13344 | | 1960 | XG449:
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| 13345 | | 1960 | XG450:
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| 13346 | | 1960 | XG451:
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| 13347 | | 1960 | XG452:
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| 13348 | | 1960 | XG453:
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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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