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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HAS.3
    Last Military Serial:XS862 RN
    Construction Number:WA0242
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HAS.3 sn XS862 RN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:New Road Industrial Estate, Hixon Airfield, Hixon, Staffordshire / Staffs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wessex HAS.1 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    15 April 1965

    First flight.

    5 May 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XS862.

    Converted to a Wessex HAS.3 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    By July 1982

    Transferred to 737 NAS, RNAS Portland.
    Operated with markings: 650, 50, PO

    28 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Day

    19 September 1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n A2711.

    19 September 1983

    Transferred to AES, RNAS Lee-On-Solent.
    As Ground Instruction airframe.

    30 August 1989

    Transferred to NBC Defence Centre, Winterbourne Gunner.
    As Ground Instruction airframe.

    To New Road Industrial Estate, Hixon Airfield, Hixon, Staffordshire/Staffs, England.
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    By 2010

    Scrapped.
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