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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HCC.4
    Last Military Serial:XV732 RAF
    Construction Number:WA0627
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HCC.4 sn XV732 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wessex HCC.4 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV732.
    Constructed Westland, Yeovil, Somerset.

    17 March 1969

    First flight.

    17 March 1969

    First flight.
    Flown from Yeovil.

    From March 1969 to June 1969

    To Aeroplane and Armaments Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down, Wilts.
    Sent to Boscombe Down for navigation/radio instllation.

    25 June 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV732.

    25 June 1969

    Testing complete and waiting for assignement.

    25 June 1969

    Transferred to Queens Flight, RAF Benson, Oxon.

    17 January 1972

    Damaged.
    Damaged and evaluated as Cat 3R.

    From 18 January 1972 to 24 January 1972

    Repaired on site.

    From 9 August 1973 to 13 September 1973

    Transferred to RAF Kemble.
    Repainted at Kemble.

    16 December 1975

    Transferred to RAF Saint Athan.
    Repainted at Saint Athan.

    From 15 August 1977 to 15 September 1977

    Transferred to Fleetlands, Hants.
    Repainted at Fleetlands.

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Wessex HCC.4 of the Queens Flight at the 1981 International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire.

    27 September 1982

    To Servicing Flight, No 5 MU, RAF Kemble, Glos.
    Repainted with No 5.

    14 October 1982

    Transferred to Queens Flight, RAF Benson, Oxon.

    1 April 1995

    To No 32 (The Royal) Squadron, RAF Northolt.

    31 March 1998

    Last flight.
    Flown from Northolt to Brampton to Stanford and back to Northolt.

    28 April 1998

    Assigned to RAF Shawbury, Salop for storage.

    To RAF Museum.
    Donated to the RAF Museum by the MoD.

    26 March 2002

    Transported by ground. Delivered to RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
    Moved from Shawburty to Hendon.
    View the Location Dossier

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    11 December 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: ex Queens Flight Wessex HCC.4 is displayed in the Historic Hangars Collection at RAF Museum at Hendon

    11 December 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: ex Queens Flight Wessex HHC.4 is displayed in the Historic Hangars Collection at RAF Museum at Hendon
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