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Year 1966
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XT443 | ||||
 Fleet Air Arm apr66 | ||||
| 60th Royal Navy Wasp HAS.1 built at Hayes, ff 29 Mar 1966 at Yeovil dd 20 Apr 1966 to RNAY Fleetlands 829Sq Bacchante Flt/425 by Feb 1969 to c Jul 1969 829Sq Lowestoft Flt/452 Mar 1970 until damaged during heavy landing 17 Feb 1971  | ||||
| Jun70-Feb71, I was the Flight Commander HMS Lowestoft and according to my logbook I had XT443 when damage was sustained to the tail cone during a cross deck landing requiring return to RN Aircraft Yard Flatlands for repair.. | ||||
| 1972-03-20 | AChickerell | Accident repaired, to 703Sq by Aug 1971 829Sq Mohawk Flt/474-MO by Feb 1972 but damaged after in-flight engine failure 20 Mar 1972 nr Chickerell | ||
| 1993 | repaired, to 829 NAS Galatea Flt/461 by Dec 1974 until c Apr 1977 To RNAY Wroughton 1977 for storage and overhaul, completed 1981 To 829 NAS Aurora Flt/422 1981 Surplus to requirement and retired by 1987. | |||
| - 1995 | ||||
| 1995-01 | BEGFI | Exhibit to Westland for storage Donated to The Helicopter Museum, delivered Jan 1995, put in main collection in Nov 2002 after 5 year restoration preserved THM Weston-super-Mare as /422-AU | ||
| 2008-07-12 | BEGFI | 12  at the International Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare | ||
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