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    Airframe Family: Sud-Ouest SO-1221
    Latest Model:SO-1221 Djinn
    Construction Number:FR23
    Last Civil Registration:VH-INP
    Compressed ID:Sud-Ouest SO-1221 cn FR23 cr VH-INP...
    Latest Owner or Location:Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa February 1957

    Constructed as a SO-1221.

    18 February 1957

    To Ouest Aviation with new c/r F-WHOL.

    1 November 1957

    To Australian National Airways Pty. Ltd with new c/r VH-INP.

    12 November 1957

    To Ansett-ANA keeping c/r VH-INP.
    Operated by the Helicopter Division of ANSETT-ANA, mainly for surveying and prospecting in Tasmania.

    21 May 1958

    Crashed.
    Crashed near Laidley, Qld. while spraying a potato crop - While hovering at a height of 6 - 8 feet, the aircraft suddenly crashed to the ground probably through pilot error. As a result of the ground impact, the pylon collapsed allowing one main blade ejector to strike the ground. (The Djinn main rotor was driven by tip ejectors expelling air bled from the engine compressor.) The ejector promptly separated to be flung 654 feet. Torque reaction failed the main rotor shaft and the rotor went 36 feet in the opposite direction striking and destroying the rudder in the process. The aircraft was written off as beyond economical repair.

    30 September 1959

    Civil registration, VH-INP, cancelled.

    Acquired by Cliff Douglas for display at his Chewing Gum Field Museum at Tallebudgera, Qld.

    7 May 1998

    Noted on the flight line at Coolangatta Airport. The aircraft was owned by the Lanham family, operators of Lanhams Air Taxis.

    26 July 2008

    To Shane Keat of Forbes, NSW.

    May 2009

    To Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland.
    Markings added: VH-INP
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    29 January 2017


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At the Queensland Air Museum located at Caloundra Airport in Queensland, Australia.
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