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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HU.5
    Last Military Serial:XT453 RN
    Construction Number:WA0275
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HU.5 sn XT453 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:HMS Sultan - Defence School of Maritime Engineering, Gosport, Hampshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1965

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

    5 May 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XT453.

    By July 1980

    Transferred to 845SQN, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By July 1980

    Markings Applied: G
    Noted at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 1980-07-03.

    1 August 1980


    Photographer: C Peter Russell-Smith
    Notes: Photographed at Yeovilton.

    By July 1982

    Transferred to 707SQN, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By July 1982

    Markings Applied: ZE
    Noted at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 1982-07-21.

    September 1982

    Transferred to NASU, RNAS Yeovilton.

    17 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    By October 1982

    Transferred to 845SQN, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By October 1982

    Markings Applied: A
    Noted at RNAS Yeovilton 1982-10-27.

    By 1988

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

    25 June 1991

    New serial number assigned: A2756 RN

    By 1995

    Markings Applied: VL
    C/s representing an aircraft from RNAS Yeovilton.

    3 October 1995

    Transferred to Air Engineering School, HMS Sultan, Gosport.

    By 2003

    Markings Applied: B, A
    C/s representing an aircraft from HMS Albion.

    18 July 2003


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT

    By 2008

    Assigned to HMS Sultan-Defence School of Maritime Engineering, Gosport, Hampshire, England for storage.
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    By July 2010

    Markings Applied: PO
    C/s representing an aircraft from RNAS Portland.

    10 July 2010


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2010 photo at Yeovilton

    4 April 2016


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at HMS Sultan, Gosport, Hampshire, England
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    Credits
     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
    Internet Sources
     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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