This model is a version of Whirlwind
c/n wa271
Year 1959 to 1969
Helicopter Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 Serial wa271 Register XN259 used by Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy). Built 1959. Aircraft history and location
ID | | New Layout | XN259 Fleet Air Arm | | Westland Whirlwind HAS.7, c/n WA271, ff: 24Aug59 del Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm as XN259, 04Sep59 w/o 03Aug69 wfu as A2604, unk, perished 1997.  | XN259 Fleet Air Arm | | Operation Vantage Feb 1960 to 848 Sq / A-B until c Oct 1962  | XN259 Fleet Air Arm | | RM Condor G I Airframe ( mar-70 ) AES Arbroath by Mar 1970  | XN259 Fleet Air Arm | | Lee-on-Solent G I Airframe ( mar-78 ) AES Lee, still as /518-PO (A2604) by Mar 1978  | XN259 Fleet Air Arm | | MoD Shoeburyness P&EE ( mar-84 ) At P&EE Foulness by Mar 1984  |

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