NAF-510 5N-AGA VP-TCM G-APPS G-ALIK Westland Widgeon C/N wa/h/003

Helicopter Westland Widgeon Serial wa/h/003 Register NAF-510 5N-AGA VP-TCM G-APPS G-ALIK used by Nigerian Air Force ,Bristow Helicopters Nigeria BHN ,Bristow Caribbean ,Bristow ,Westland ,SABENA (Societe Anonyme Belge d Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne). Built 1949. Aircraft history and location

Helicopter Westland Widgeon Serial wa/h/003 Register NAF-510 5N-AGA VP-TCM G-APPS G-ALIK used by Nigerian Air Force ,Bristow Helicopters Nigeria BHN ,Bristow Caribbean ,Bristow ,Westland ,SABENA (Societe Anonyme Belge d Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne). Built 1949. Aircraft history and location

Aircraft History

Westland
G-ALIK
	Westland 1953 features in Pathe Clip
1956-08-04	A Birnbeck Pier	at Birnbeck Pier for first live air-ground public TV broadcast.
SABENA
	SABENA
1957	B EBMB	at Melsbroek. The old terminal was on the North side of Brussels airport where the Cargo terminal is located. The maintenance was on the opposite side where the bottom photo was taken

1958	during leasing to Sabena at the Brussels World Fair

G-APPS
Westland
	Westland, ex G-ALIK. Originally built as a Dragonfly and was 1st conversion to a Widgeon, during early 1958. Re-registered as G-APPS Aug 1958. Sold to Bristow Helicopters.
Bristow
	Used for North Sea rig traffic contracts and later sent to Trinidad and Tobago as VP-TCM and then Nigeria for similar work. Re-registered as 5N-AGA in Nigeria in Nov 1958. Nigeria-Biafra war caused it to be overrun and used as a military machine.
VP-TCM
Bristow Caribbean
	Trinidad and Tobago
5N-AGA
Bristow Helicopters Nigeria
	Bristow Nigeria
For NAF-510 see also 105d S-289 NAF-510
Nigerian Air Force
	reg during Biafra war was 510

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