Sikorsky HSS-1 / SH-34G Seabat

C/N 58-265

Built 1956 - Scrapped 1968





Helicopter Sikorsky HSS-1 / SH-34G Seabat Serial 58-265 Register XL722 G-17-1 141602 used by Westland ,US Navy USN. Built 1956. Aircraft history and location





Aircraft History




For 141602 see also
    1957 hss-1 58-444 w/o 1968

141602

usa US Navy

1956-05-15
Westland Wessex Sikorsky HSS-1, cn 58-265, ff:?
del USN as HSS-1, 141602 for initial flight acceptance trials before being dismantled and shipped to Westlands for reassembly and use as WS-58 Wessex prototype, 15May56.
[BuNo #141602 re-used on HSS-1 / UH-34G, c/n 58-444.]
For G-17-1 see also
    1951 S-55 55-016
    1956 srs.1 wa173 scrapped 1983
    1957 srs.1 wa194
    1964 mk.60 wa199 w/o 1981
    1966 Wasp f.9656
    1967 Wasp f.9688
    1968 mk.60 wa686 scrapped 1994
    1973 Commando wa 782

G-17-1

united kingdom Westland


Westland Wessex Reg Westlands as WS-58 Wessex prototype G-17-1 for initial flight trials from Fleetlands dockyards to Yeovilton.

XL722

united kingdom Westland

Ex USN 141602. Delivered by sea, re-assembled at the dockside and flown to Yeovil 24 Jun 1956 as G-17-1. XL722 in Jul 1956. To A&AEE Boscombe Down, then Lee-on-Solent. Re-engined with Napier Gazelle 11 and f/f in this configuration 17 May 1957. Re-engined with 1450shp Napier Gazelle 13 in Sep 1957.
1961-07 A RM Condor G I Airframe to Arbroath (A2514) by Jul 1961, still Sep 1962, still Jul 1963.
1968 B Staravia yard Breakers Yard Scrapped by Staravia, Ascot by .




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