Detailed history and photos of helicopter Westland Wessex HU.5 Serial wa556 Register XT774 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy) Track service timeline and current status.
Accident wreck subsequently to Lee-on-Solent, to Arbroath (HMS Condor) as G.I. airframe Feb 1970 until early 1973.
I was crewman onboard Wessex HU Mk5 XT774: 845Sqn, whilst landing underslung trailer on deck Of HMS Bulwark R08 off Cyprus. Lost power, heavy landing, entered ground resonance, port undercarriage collapsed, a/c rolled onto port side, A/B AB Hughes killed by debris and A/B W Willis injured, Bulwark off Cyprus, Cat HY 17may69 (S/L DP Dixon and PO VS Warrington).
1979
Scrapyard ex 845 NAS / F remains in a scrapyard near Siddal, nr Halifax by 845 NAS
