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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HAS.1
    Last Military Serial:XM300 RAE
    Construction Number:WA0005
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HAS.1 sn XM300 RAE...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of Wales Collection Centre, Nantgarw

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wessex HAS.1 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    30 April 1959

    First flight.
    At Westlands, Yeovil.

    2 December 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n XM300.

    2 December 1959

    Transferred to A and AEE, RAE Boscombe Down.

    16 May 1960

    Returned to Westlands, Yeovil.

    5 July 1970

    Transferred to RAE Farnborough.

    11 November 1970

    Transferred to RAE Bedford.

    5 July 1976

    Transferred to RAE Farnborough.

    8 January 1979

    Used as a Ground Experimental Vehicle at Farnborough.

    1 July 1984

    To Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff.

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff

    From April 1991 to 1998

    To Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum, Bute Street, Cardiff.
    Museum closed in 1998.

    1998

    To National Museum of Wales Collection Centre, Nantgarw.
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