Westland Wessex HAS.1

C/N wa 29

Built 1961 - Scrapped 2007





Helicopter Westland Wessex HAS.1 Serial wa 29 Register XM870 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1961. Aircraft history and location



Helicopter Westland Wessex HAS.1 Serial wa 29 Register XM870 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1961. Aircraft history and location
By Steve Mills



Aircraft History





XM870

united kingdom Fleet Air Arm

1961-05-24Westland Wessex HAS.1, c/n WA029, f/f:?
del Royal Navy as XM870, 06/1961
to instructional airframe as A2634, unk
G.I. Predannack, last noted there 09/2007.
1961-07-19R/306 815 NAS
1964-02-02V/344 814 NAS
1964-05-13C/304 815 NAS
1965-07-07 A EGHG
Westland Wessex HAS.3 Converted by Westlands - Yeovil
1967-06-14CU/566 706 NAS
1973-01-17PO/522Later to code PO/652 737 NAS
1982-07-3131jul82 in yellow and dark grey camo as PO/652 of 737 Squadron RNAS Portland, picture with XS517 at RNAS Yeovilton
1982-12-13 B EGDTTo store
1983-11-28PO/652 C EGHF RNAS Lee-on-Solent (EGUS) Ground Instructional
1984-01-19 C EGHF RNAS Lee-on-Solent (EGUS) Wessex HAS.3 at RNAS Lee-on-Solent with the Air Engineering School (AES) as an Instructional airframe.


1988-09-13 D EGDR G I Airframe HAS.3, Moved from Lee-on-Solent to G.I. Culdrose during Sep 1988, SFDO Culdrose SFDO
1993-07-27 C EGHF RNAS Lee-on-Solent (EGUS) Battle Damage Repair
1996-06-30 E HMS SultanTo HMS Sultan - BDR
1997-01-26 F EGDOFireschool




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