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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HU.5
    Last Military Serial:XT761 RN
    Construction Number:WA0483
    Last Civil Registration:G-WSEX
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HU.5 sn XT761 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Helicopters, Crewkerne, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

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

    20 October 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XT761.

    4 September 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Wessex HU.5 of 846 Naval Air Squadron in the static park at the 1976 RNAS Yeovilton Air Day.

    Circa 1981

    Transferred to 771 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.
    Noted at RNAS Culdrose Air Day 22 July 1981.

    Circa 1981

    Markings Applied: 521, 21, CU

    Circa 1984

    Transferred to 845 NAS, RAF Wideawake, Ascension Islands.

    Circa 1985

    Transferred to NASU, RNAS Yeovilton.

    Circa 1985

    Markings Applied: P

    Circa 1988

    Assigned to RNAY Wroughton for storage.

    12 April 1988

    New serial number assigned: A2767 RN
    As Ground Instruction airframe.

    12 April 1988

    Transferred to AES (Air Engineering School), RNAS Lee-On-Solent.

    6 November 1995

    New serial number assigned: A2678 RN

    6 November 1995

    Transferred to AES, HMS Sultan, Gosport.

    2006

    Transferred to RN Historic Flight, RNAS Yeovilton.

    Assigned to Gosport for storage.

    By May 2013

    Based at School of Flightdeck Operations (SFDO), HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, England.
    Stored adjacent to SFDO.
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    18 June 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: in outside store adjacent to SFDO, RNAS Culdrose

    19 March 2018

    To Andrew Douglas Whitehouse, Snowden FARM, Crewkerne with new c/r G-WSEX.

    Base of operations changed to: Historic Helicopters, Crewkerne, Somerset, England.
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    15 February 2019

    First post-restoration Flight.

    13 July 2019


    Photographer: VIN (V77RFC)
    Notes: At Yeovilton, 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
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Andrew Appleton
    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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