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XT768 Wessex HU.5 (C/N wa550)

Westland Wessex HU.5

Construction Number: wa550


Built 1967





Detailed history and photos of helicopter Westland Wessex HU.5 Serial wa550 Register XT768 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy) ,Westland Track service timeline and current status.





Aircraft History




XT768

feb67
united kingdom Westland

Spent much of period 1974-1979 instrumented with cameras and strobe lights in Denmark and Canada searching for icing conditions as test bed airframe for EH101 main rotor de-icing system.
1968-09 A EGFA Nord AS.12 with A&AEE, detached to Aberporth for missile system trials
1979-09-12 B EGHGnoted at the Westland factory, Yeovil - EGHG in sand camoflage c/s

mar85
united kingdom Fleet Air Arm

Westland Wessex HU.5, c/n WA550, f/f:?
del Royal Navy as XT768, 1967.
Not issued to Royal Navy, spent most of its active life with Westland and MoD as a trials airframe.
1985-03 C EGDT Storage Retired to RNAY Wroughton Mar 1985
1991-02 D EGCN G I Airframe ? to SAR Engineering Wing at RAF Finningley

feb92
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1992-02 E Stoney Cove Dive wreck Sunk as Diving Wreck, Stoney Cove Lake




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