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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:Whirlwind HAR.10
    Last Military Serial:XP355 RAF
    Construction Number:WA.371
    Last Civil Registration:G-BEBC
    Compressed ID:Westland Whirlwind HAR.10 sn XP355...
    Latest Owner or Location:City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich Airport, Norwich, Norfolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Whirlwind HAR.10 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    23 March 1962

    First flight.

    9 April 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XP355.

    16 January 1976

    New serial number assigned: 8463M RAF

    To Showline Helicopters, Brands Hatch.

    Civil registration G-BEBC (WESTLAND S55 SERIES 3, WAT-130) reserved but not taken up.

    6 March 1981

    To Faygate, Sussex.

    By July 1983

    To City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich Airport, Norwich, Norfolk, England.
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    By 2006

    Markings Applied: XP355
    In the c/s worn by Whirlwinds serving with 22Sqn at RAF Coltishall.

    11 October 2006


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    2007


    Photographer: Andy West
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    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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