| By Dave Taskis |
Aircraft History |
XS488 | |||
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| Westland Wessex HU.5, c/n WA162, f/f:? del Royal Navy as XS488, 04/1964 to 9056M, GIA Gosport, Hampshire, unk.  | |||
| 707Sq/X-CU by Jan 1965 707Sq/T-CU by Dec 1966, still Jul 1970 845Sq/E-B by May 1972. 707 NAS | |||
| 1974-11-17 | E | A EGPH | Visiting noted at Edinburgh. 845 NAS |
| 1977-03-20 | B Ose | Gratangen 845Sq/E-H by Sep 1973 crashed 1 nm NW of Ose, Gratangen, in Norway during a whiteout, while with 845Sqdn | |
| Repaired at Weston by summer 1979 772Sq/625-PO by Aug 1981 to RNAY Wroughton Mar 1982 NASU VL Apr 1982 707Sq/XK May 1982 847Sq B Flt/XK May 1982 | |||
| 771Sq Aug 1982 RNAY Wroughton by Sep 1982 771 NAS | |||
| 1991-01 | C EGWN | G I Airframe to 1 SoTT Halton (9056M) by Jan 1991, still Jul 1992 (gone by Mar 1994). | |
| 1996-04 | D EGUW | G I Airframe to Wattisham by Apr 1996 | |
| 2003-04 | E HMS Sultan | G I Airframe to 9056M, G.I. Gosport /XK-F by Apr 2003 still Apr 2007. | |
| 2006 | E HMS Sultan | at HMS Sultan/Gosport | |
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| reactivated 847 NAS 07may-24sep 1982 as /XK 847NAS | |||
| 1982-05-13 | F HMS Raleigh | mv Atlantic Causeway 847Sq /XK noted here on 13 May 1982, to join mv Atlantic Causeway later that day for South Atlantic. 847NAS Operation Corporate | |
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| 2013-09-21 | 21sep13 at a residential address in Shropshire | ||
| 2014-01-11 | G Layer Wood | Airframe has been extensively patched during BDRT and the main fuselage is now a composite with the tail of XR497/F (qv). Nose still bears /XK code from its 847 NAS service at Layer Wood, NE of Tiptree | |
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