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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HU.5
    Last Military Serial:XT771 RN
    Construction Number:WA0553
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HU.5 sn XT771 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Helicopters, Crewkerne, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wessex HU.5 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    6 December 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XT771.

    Circa 1980

    Transferred to 707 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    Circa 1980

    Markings Applied: WR, VL
    Noted at RNAS Yeovilton on 10 Jan 1980.

    Circa 1982

    Transferred to 772 NAS, RNAS Portland.
    Noted at RNAS Yeovilton on 10 Nov 1982.

    Circa 1982

    Markings Applied: 620, PO

    16 July 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Portland Air Show

    11 April 1988

    New serial number assigned: A2761 RN
    As Ground Instruction airframe.

    11 April 1988

    Transferred to Air Engineering School, RNAS Lee-On-Solent.

    14 November 1995

    New serial number assigned: A2673 RN

    14 November 1995

    Transferred to AEES, HMS Sultan, Gosport.

    2006

    Transferred to Historic Flight, RNAS Yeovilton.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at HMS Sultan-Defence School of Maritime Engineering, Gosport, Hampshire, England.
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    Based at School of Flightdeck Operations (SFDO), HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, England.
    In open storage.
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    18 June 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: in storage adjacent to SFDO, RNAS Culdrose

    18 June 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at SFDO RNAS Culdrose

    2020

    To Historic Helicopters, Crewkerne, Somerset, England.
    For spares.
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    5 August 2021


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Historic Helicopters Open Day, Chard, Somerset, UK
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Wrecks and Relics
    Internet Sources
     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Robert Nichols
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