Detailed history and photos of helicopter Westland Wessex HAS.1 Serial wa249 Register XS869 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy) Track service timeline and current status.

By Tony Stafford

By Steve Mills

Aircraft History

Fleet Air Arm
XS869
	Westland HAS.1, c/n WA249, f/f: ? del Royal Navy as XS869, 03/09/1965 to A2649 G.I. FAA Medical School, Seafield Park, l/n 1991 fate unknown.
	to Far East Oct 1965 815 Sq / 057-R by Dec 1965 retd UK and to NASU Culdrose by Oct 1966 815 NAS
	1967 820Sqn /64 FAA aboard HMS Eagle (R05) ditched into sea, recovered to ship
	17aug67 as 820Sqn /064-E being recovered onto HMS Eagle after ditching 820 NAS

	Hermes SAR Flt /266-H by Aug 1969 NASU Culdrose by Jun 1970 Ark Royal SAR Flt / 056-R by Sep 1970 771 Sq / 508-PO by Mar 1971 Fleetlands store by Sep 1971 771 NAS
	G I Airframe to RNEC Manadon, still as /508-PO
1978-03	A EGHF	G I Airframe to AES Lee / 508-PO by Jan 1972 to A2649 by Jul 1975, still at Lee by Mar 1978, still Mar 1980.
1980-10	B Seafield Park	G I Airframe to RN Air Medical School by Oct 1980, still there Jun 1990. (Scrapped there 1991 ?)
1984-02-04	B Seafield Park	as an instructional airframe with the Royal Navy Medical School

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XS869 Wessex HAS.1 Royal Navy (C/N wa249)

Westland Wessex HAS.1

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XS869

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