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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HAS.31
    Last Military Serial:N7-226 RAN
    Construction Number:WA0226
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HAS.31 sn N7-226 RA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum, Nowra Airport, Nowra, New South Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    1963

    Constructed as a Wessex HAS.31 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    5 September 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Navy with s/n N7-226.

    30 June 1988


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Nowra Air Base, New South Wales

    31 December 1989

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum, Nowra Airport, Nowra, New South Wales.
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    Markings Applied: 836

    24 March 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2014 photo at the Australian Fleet Air Arm Museum at Nowra, New South Wales, Australia.
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