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    Airframe Family: Bell 47 / H-13 Sioux
    Latest Model:Sioux AH.1
    Last Military Serial:XW185 AAC
    Construction Number:WA-705
    Last Civil Registration:D-HAFF
    Compressed ID:Westland Sioux AH.1 sn XW185 AAC cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Reel-Time Entertainments Ltd, London

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    Dates

    Event

    1968

    Constructed as a Sioux AH.1 by Westland.

    Circa 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Army Air Corps with s/n XW185.

    15 October 1976

    To Harold Poupart, Wolverhampton with new c/r G-BEGA.

    From 25 November 1983 to 6 April 1987

    To Penelope Pilkington keeping c/r G-BEGA.

    New construction number, WAT-227, assigned to the airframe.

    From 6 April 1987 to 15 June 1989

    To Durlime Ltd keeping c/r G-BEGA.

    From 15 June 1989 to 21 April 1999

    To Flight 47 Ltd, Chobham, Guildford keeping c/r G-BEGA.

    5 May 1990


    Photographer: Vince Horan
    Notes: At Fairoaks Airport

    21 April 1999

    To Reel-Time Entertainments Ltd, London keeping c/r G-BEGA.

    26 July 2001

    Civil registration, G-BEGA, cancelled.

    To unknown owner with c/r D-HAFF.
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