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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:Whirlwind HCC.12
    Last Military Serial:XR486 RAF
    Construction Number:WA.418
    Last Civil Registration:G-RWWW
    Compressed ID:Westland Whirlwind HCC.12 sn XR486...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset - North, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Whirlwind HCC.12 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    6 May 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XR486.

    9 December 1981

    New serial number assigned: 8727M RAF

    9 December 1981

    Transferred to RAF Saint Athan.
    For Ground Instruction.

    By October 1986

    Markings Applied: XR486
    In c/s of Queens Flight, RAF Northolt.

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF St Athan Historic Aircraft Collection

    October 1989

    Sold at Tatteshall, Lincolnshire.

    From 21 June 1990 to 6 December 1993

    To Roger Windley with new c/r G-RWWW.

    6 December 1993

    To Whirlwind Helicopters Ltd, The Glebe House, London Road North, Merstham, Redhill keeping c/r G-RWWW.

    8 June 2000

    To The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-North, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    10 July 2000

    Civil registration, G-RWWW, cancelled.
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     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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