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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HC.2
    Last Military Serial:XV729 RAF
    Construction Number:WA0624
    Last Civil Registration:2-WESX
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HC.2 sn XV729 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Biggin Hill Airport, Croydon, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

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

    14 May 1968

    First flight.

    31 May 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV729.

    By February 1983

    Transferred to A Flight, 22 SQN, RAF Chivenor.

    9 February 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Chivenor

    From 9 March 2001 to 10 September 2003

    To Robert Fidler, Honey-Crock Farm, Redhill with new c/r G-HANA.

    To Ghana with new c/r 9G-BOB.
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    2008

    To Ghana with new c/r 9G-AEL.

    To Biggin Hill Airport, Croydon, London, England.
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    15 November 2016


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: At Biggin Hill

    By 17 March 2022

    To unknown owner with c/r 2-WESX.

    17 March 2022

    Civil registration, 2-WESX, cancelled.
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     AMCAR
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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