XM556 Saunders Roe Skeeter 7 C/N S2/5110

Helicopter Saunders Roe Skeeter 7 Serial S2/5110 Register XM556 used by Army Air Corps AAC (British Army). Built 1959. Aircraft history and location

Aircraft History

Army Air Corps
XM556
	Skeeter AOP.12 to Army Air Corps
	to 654 Sq Sep 1959 654 Squadron
1962-07-07	A EGVL	CFS 50th Anniversary display to RAF CFS / V in Jul 1961 and known as Skeeter T.13 (but not dual control and identical to AOP.12) 7 Jul 1962 in the hangar display at 50th Anniversary of CFS
1965-10	B Arborfield	G I Airframe to 7870M Dec 1964 to Army Apprentice College, Chepstow by Jan 1965 to SEAE Arborfield by Oct 1965, until at least Nov 1969. SEAE
1972-11	G I Airframe to Flint Technical College by Nov 1972. Subsequently fitted with boom of XM529 / 7979M. Still there by 1976 (cabin section XM556 / 7870M, boom of XM529 / 7979M).
1977-06-26	C EGVI	IAT 1977 26 Jun 1977 as /V in the static display at RAF Greenham Common Air Show
1978-03	D EGFI	Stored to Briitsh Rotorcraft Museum as (G-HELI) /V by Mar 1978. Some parts from XL769 (?) composite. Still there by Nov 1989, still 1990.
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2006-05	E EDUG	Exhbit painted in German colours as SC+117 and exhibited at Gatow museum by May 2006, still there by Oct 2007, still Jun 2010, still Jun 2014, still Jun 2016.
2012-09-13	E EDUG	at the Luftwaffe museum, Gatow, in fake German Army colors, unmarked