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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HU.5
    Last Military Serial:XL728 RN
    Construction Number:WA0002
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HU.5 sn XL728 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Navy

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

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

    1958

    To Westland.
    Industrial airframe for engine development from 1958, with spells at Napier and Westland. Spent some time in storage before 1966.

    Converted to a Wessex HU.5 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    From 1971 to Circa 1984

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n XL728.

    3 September 1981


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: XL728 Westland Wessex HAS.1 (modified)c/n WA.2, the second Wessex built.In the Royal Aircraft Establishments red/white/blue livery.A visitor to Cranfield for the Business and Light Aircraft Show in 1981.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XL728.

    1986

    Transported by ground.
    To Pendine ranges.

    1988

    Transported by ground.
    To Bawdy Fire Dump.

    By 1992

    Scrapped.
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