| By Dave Taskis |
Aircraft History |
XS567 | |||
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| RNAY Fleetlands store by Jul 1964 to 1970 by Jun 1970 829Sq Gurkha Flt/444  | |||
| 1971-11 | Nov 1971 with HMS Gurkha to Bay of Bengal Indo-Pakistan war contingency | ||
| Gurkha Flt / 444 until at least May 1975 by Oct 1967 829Sq Apollo Flt/470-AP until c Apr 1979 829Sq Diomede Flt/423 by Jun 1979 829Sq HQ Flt by Feb 1980 829Sq Apollo Flt/470-AP by Aug 1980 still Sep 1983 airfreighted to Belize to join 829Sq Active Flt/322 Aug 1984 829Sq Endurance Flt/434-E by Sep 1984 wfu Jun 1986, to AES Lee as A2719 by Jul 1986 until Sep 1992 pres. IWM Duxford (as /434-E) from Sep 1992. | |||
| Oct80-Mar83, as the Flight Commander of HMS Apollo, I flew this aircraft for several hundred hours including the inaugural Operation Armilla in the Gulf in 1981 and Operation Corporate in the Falklands in 1982.: It was a great little helicopter which never let me down in all that time. I also had 3 excellent leading aircrewmen during my time in Apollo: Joe Harper, John Greig and Taff Davies, who shared the cockpit with me and were a pleasure to fly with. Colin Milne, Lt Cdr RN retd. Armilla Patrol | |||
| 2013-06-16 | A EGSU | Exhibit 16jun13 preserved as /434-E HMS Endurance in the Sea and Air building at Imperial War Museum, Duxford | |
| XS567 was recoded from 444 to 470 in 1976 and not "1967" as per the entry. I noted is as "444" at Turnhouse on 9/6/76. I noted the replacement "444" as XT428 over Edinburgh on 20/4/77. | |||
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