Detailed history and photos of helicopter Westland Wessex HU.5 Serial wa290 Register XT468 used by Royal Marines RM ,Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy) Track service timeline and current status.
Wideawake 845Sq /D, despatched via chartered Belfast C.1 from Yeovilton with XT765 /S on 4 Apr, via Dakar to Ascension Island. Operation Corporate
Was airborne when mv Atlantic Conveyor was sunk by Exocet and transferred to 848Sq D Flt 25 May 1982 Returned to Yeovilton Aug 1982 for 845Sq 845Sq D Flt/D by May 1984 to RNAY Fleetlands by Jun 1984 845 NAS
772Sq/628-PO by 1987 RNAY Wroughton, to AES Lee-on-Solent as A2757 25 Jun 1991 still Jan 1993, to A2667 1993 to AESS HMS Sultan Gosport by Feb 1997 and had rear fuselage of XT460 fitted to SFDO-CU, to G.I. Predannack on 17 Jan 1998, still Jul 1999, Aug 2005, Apr 2007.