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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HC.2
    Last Military Serial:XV722 RAF
    Construction Number:WA0617
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HC.2 sn XV722 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Badgers Mount, Kent

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wessex HC.2 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    19 January 1968

    First flight.

    15 February 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV722.

    By September 1983

    Transferred to 2 FTS, RAF Shawbury.
    Operated with markings: WH

    24 September 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Alconbury Air Show

    24 September 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    24 July 1993


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Wessex HC.2, callsign SYS 69, of 2 Flying Training School on display at the 1993 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    From 1 June 1997 to 13 May 1999

    Assigned to RAF Shawbury for storage.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n 8805M.

    13 May 1999

    To Air and Ground, Hixton, Staffordshire.

    To Badgers Mount, Kent.
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