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    Airframe Family: Bristol Belvedere
    Latest Model:Belvedere HC.1
    Last Military Serial:XG452 RAE
    Construction Number:13347
    Last Civil Registration:G-BRMB
    Compressed ID:Bristol Belvedere HC.1 sn XG452 RAE...
    Latest Owner or Location:Elfan Dyfed Ap Rees trading as British Rotorcraft Museum, Weston-Super-Mare

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Belvedere HC.1.
    The last of five Type 192 prototypes.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n XG452.

    27 April 1960

    Transferred to Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down.

    From June 1960 to August 1960

    Flown from Gatwick to Idris, Libya, via Luqa, Malta for tropical trials. Set a new average speed record of 130mph. Returned via Le Bourget-du-Lac in the Alps for high altitude trials.

    September 1960

    Appeared in the SBAC Air Show at Farnborough.

    October 1967

    Transferred to No. 2 School of Technical Training, Cosford.
    Instructional Airframe, allocated maintenance number 7997M.

    1971

    Assigned to RAF Ternhill for storage.

    5 November 1974

    To The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-North, England.

    November 1975

    Transported by ground. Delivered to The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-North, England.
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    15 June 1978

    To Elfan Dyfed Ap Rees trading as British Rotorcraft Museum, Weston-Super-Mare with new c/r G-BRMB (BRISTOL 192 HC1, 13347).

    3 July 1996

    Civil registration, G-BRMB, cancelled.

    October 2001

    Restoration started.

    16 September 2017


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England
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