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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:Whirlwind HAR.10
    Last Military Serial:XJ729 RAF
    Construction Number:WA.100
    Last Civil Registration:G-BVGE
    Compressed ID:Westland Whirlwind HAR.10 sn XJ729...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Helicopters, Crewkerne, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    By January 1956

    Constructed as a Whirlwind HAR.2 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    18 January 1956

    First flight.

    1 February 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XJ729.

    From 15 September 1960 to 19 March 1962

    Converted to a Whirlwind HAR.10 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.
    By Westland Helicopters, Old Mixton.

    Transferred to 22SQN, RAF Finningley.

    4 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Finningley Airshow

    August 1983

    Assigned to RAF Finningley for storage.

    1 August 1984

    New serial number assigned: 8732M RAF
    As a static display aircraft.

    23 September 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Finningley Battle of Britain At Home Day

    From 18 November 1993 to 27 May 1999

    To Brian Henry Austen with new c/r G-BVGE.

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Whirlwind HAR.10 on civil register as G-BVGE on display at the 1995 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    From 27 May 1999 to 28 November 2013

    To James Francis Kelly keeping c/r G-BVGE.

    13 July 2013


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup
    Notes: On display at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 2013.

    28 November 2013

    To Andrew Douglas Whitehouse, Snowden FARM, Crewkerne keeping c/r G-BVGE.

    Base of operations changed to: Historic Helicopters, Crewkerne, Somerset, England.
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    11 July 2015


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: G-BVGE - 1956 build Westland Whirlwind HAR.10, part of the static display at Yeovilton International Air Day 2015

    8 July 2017


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: Yeovilton International Air Day 2017.(UK)

    13 July 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Airshow

    5 August 2021


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Historic Helicopters Open Day, Chard, Somerset, UK

    18 September 2021


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw
    Notes: Seen at the 2021 Battle of Britain show at Duxford
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     Andrew Appleton
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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