Westland Wessex HAS.1

C/N wa 38

Built 1961





Helicopter Westland Wessex HAS.1 Serial wa 38 Register XM917 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1961. Aircraft history and location



Helicopter Westland Wessex HAS.1 Serial wa 38 Register XM917 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1961. Aircraft history and location
By Steve Mills



Aircraft History





XM917

united kingdom Fleet Air Arm

Westland Wessex HAS.1, c/n WA038, f/f:?
del Royal Navy as XM917, 29/09/1961
to instructional airframe as A2692, unk
scr Lee-on-Solent, 1990.
1963-07-04 A WSAG Accident 814Sq/340-H by Dec 1961, damaged during ground running at Sembawang 4 Jul 1963 814 NAS
to UK by Feb 1964
737 Sq/529-PO by Apr 1967 737 NAS
1970-05-26 B EHYB Visiting 771Sq/513-PO by Mar 1970, at Ypenburg 26 May 1970. 771 NAS
Wroughton store by Nov 1973
771Sq/528-CU by May 1975 still May 1979
Wroughton store by Aug 1979.
1980-09 C EGHF G I Airframe to Lee (A2692) still wearing /528-CU by Sep 1980 (SoC Oct 1980) still Jul 1983
Lee dump by Mar 1988
scr. Lee-on-Solent 1990 ?
1983-07-15 C EGHF RNAS Lee-on-Solent (EGUS) lined up outside the Air Engineering School (AES) whilst on Ground Instructional duties






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