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    Airframe Family: Aerospatiale SA-341/342 Gazelle
    Latest Model:Gazelle AH.1
    Last Military Serial:XZ316 AAC
    Construction Number:1599
    Compressed ID:Aerospatiale Gazelle AH.1 sn XZ316...
    Latest Owner or Location:DCCT, Lyneham

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gazelle AH.1.

    19 January 1977

    First flight.

    8 February 1977

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Army Air Corps with s/n XZ316.

    By July 1984

    Transferred to ARWS, Middle Wallop.

    8 July 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Middle Wallop Air Show

    14 September 2005


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gazelle AH.1, Callsign Army Air 719, of 666(V) Squadron in action in September 2005.

    10 May 2006

    Assigned to RAF Shawbury for storage.

    7 January 2009

    Transferred to DCAE Cosford.
    As a Ground Instruction Airframe.

    By October 2011

    To Defence School of Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Arborfield, Wokingham, England.
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    Transferred to DCCT, Lyneham.
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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