Bristol Sycamore 3

C/N 12898

Built 1950





Helicopter Bristol Sycamore 3 Serial 12898 Register WV781 G-ALTD used by Royal Air Force RAF ,Bristol Aeroplane Company. Built 1950. Aircraft history and location





Aircraft History





G-ALTD

united kingdom Bristol Aeroplane Company

1950-11-17allocated G-ALTD to Bristol Aeroplane Co on 17 Nov 1950 but not taken up
transferred to RAF 26 Mar 1952.

WV781

united kingdom Royal Air Force

1952-04 A St EvalHR.12, based at St Eval by 1952
1952-07-07 B EGHDnoted visiting Plymouth on 7 Jul 1952
ASWDU St Mawgan
CFS (H)
HDU Old Sarum CFS (H)
1959 Bleriot Air Race participated in Bleriot Air Race (Marble Arch, London to Eifel Tower) on the Embankment to Biggin Hill leg.
1964 C EGVO G I airframe to Odiham as G I 7839M , still 1981, left Feb 1984
1974 D EGYD G I Airframe RAFC Engineering Flt Cranwell, before 1974
to Digby
1974-08 E RAF Digby G I Airframe ex Cranwell, arrived Digby mid 1974
1984-02 F EGCN Rebuild Feb 1984 to RAF Finningley for rebuild. Sold during 1985, to Caernarfon Mar 1986.

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1990 G EGCK Exhibit to Caernarfon Air World museum by 1990, still Apr 1996
cockpit section still displayed 2016.
2021-10-15 G EGCK Weeting, Norfolk

Cockpit currently in Caernarfon Air World Museum, part of tail boom survives in private ownership, Weeting, Norfolk.

Aircraft notable for being the first Search and Rescue rotary in the RAF (along with WV782), later the first aircraft (along with WV783) transferred to 22 squadron when re-formed at Thorney island in 1955.




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