1958 to 1967


united kingdom SAR Flight, Khormaksar

Royal Air Force






Established 13 Jun 1958 by acquisition of some airframes from the Station Flight, which had been using the Sycamore since Jun 1955. The Sycamore was replaced by the Whirlwind HAR.10 between Jan and 28 Mar 1964 and served on, until May 1967. Provided a SAR service until disbanded in Jun 1967, whence the Wessex (which had arrived in Nov 1966) were shipped to RAF Muharraq for its SAR Flight.




78 Squadron operated the first yellow painted SAR Wessex helicopters. They were delivered to Khormaksar in boxes, assembled locally but because of shortcomings in basic SAR equipment (winch hooks that opened unexpectedly, no water proof flooring etc) they were painted with distemper in camoflage colours and used up-country until the various problems were sorted out. Tail numbers were XT 601, 602, 603, 604 and they were the first RAF Wessex with folding tails.




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  Locations


YearsLocationICAO/FAA
1958/67YE Khormaksar / Aden InternationalOYAA




helicopter   Models


Years Models
1966/67 Wessex Wessex HC.2
1964/67 Whirlwind Whirlwind HAR.10
1958/64 Type 171 Sycamore Sycamore 4




SAR Flight, Khormaksar List of helicopters


C/N VersionBuiltIn this Org In other Org
13150 w/o 1963 Sycamore 4 1953 XE309 : HR.14 Del RAF; Eastleigh Stn Flt; Aden Protectorate Communication and Su+
13265 Scrapped Sycamore 4 1955 XG504 : Khormaksar SAR Flt; CFS (H); MCS; 32 Sq
13372 Sycamore 4 1955 XG518 : HR.14 dd Oct 1955. Amman Stn Flt; Habbinya Stn Flt; El Adem Stn Flt; Khorm+
- XG518
13248 w/o 1958 Sycamore 4 1955 XJ361 : w/o 2 Sep 1958 following tail rotor failure at Khormaksar, while with Khor+
13408 Sycamore 4 1956 XJ898 : 284 Sq; 103 Sq from Aug 1959; 1563 Flt from Aug 1963; Khormaksar SAR Flt; +
13410 Sycamore 4 1956 XJ916 : HR.14 built at Weston-super-Mare, del RAF Nov 1956; 275 Sq; Khormaksar SAR+
wa150 w/o 1967 har.2 1957 XL111 : crashed 1 Apr 1967 while with Khormaksar SAR Flt
13471 w/o 1959 Sycamore 4 1957 XL828 : w/o asg Khormaksar SAR Flt, destroyed by ground resonance in Aden, 3nm S +
13474 Sycamore 4 1957 XL829 : HR.14 dd Dec 1957. Khormaksar SAR Flt until Mar 1964, returned to UK aboar+
- XL829
wa528 hc.2 1966 XT601 : ff 13 Mar 1966, dd 18 Jun 1966; Khormaksar SAR Flt 1966; Muharraq SAR Flt +
wa529 hc.2 1967 XT602 : Khormaksar SAR Flt Nov 1966; Muharraq SAR Flt by Dec 1967.
wa530 hc.2 1966 XT603 : First flew 10 Jun 1966 as HC.2, delivered 29 Jun 1966; Khormaksar SAR Flt +
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wa531 hc.2 1966 XT604 : ff 7 Jul 1966, dd 2 Aug 1966 to RAF. Wessex HAR.2; Khormaksar SAR Flt Nov +
- XT604




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Dates Operation
1964-jan1964-jan YE Operation Nutcracker







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