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    Airframe Family: Bell 47 / H-13 Sioux
    Latest Model:Sioux AH.1
    Last Military Serial:XT197 RM
    Construction Number:WA-356
    Last Civil Registration:VH-PBK
    Compressed ID:Westland Sioux AH.1 sn XT197 RM cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Ross John MacLean, Baralaba, QLD

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    Dates

    Event

    1965

    Constructed as a Sioux AH.1 by Westland.

    1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Marines with s/n XT197.

    From 10 October 1988 to 29 October 1991

    To Fairglobe Ltd with new c/r G-BPDY.

    12 May 1990


    Photographer: Vince Horan
    Notes: At Cranfield

    New construction number, WAN-48, assigned to the airframe.

    16 January 1992

    To Michael Owen Simpson, Trading As:, Howden Helicopters, Spaldington Airfield, Spaldington, Goole, Andrew Charles Lindner, Trading As:, Howden Helicopte keeping c/r G-BPDY.

    20 December 2002

    Civil registration, G-BPDY, cancelled.

    20 December 2002

    To unknown owner with c/r OY-HCO.

    To unknown owner with c/r SE-HIF.

    6 January 2003

    To Ross John MacLean, Baralaba, QLD with new c/r VH-PBK.

    3 February 2003

    To Timbarra of Dunbogan Pty Ltd, Dunbogan, NSW keeping c/r VH-PBK.

    2 August 2010

    To Ross John MacLean, Baralaba, QLD keeping c/r VH-PBK.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Air Forces Directory (Mach III Publishing) by Ian Carroll
    Internet Sources
     Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Robert Nichols
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