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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-61 / H-3 / Sea King
    Latest Model:S-61NR
    Last Military Serial:AD-1603 LeAF
    Construction Number:61-820
    Last Civil Registration:G-BGWK
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky S-61NR sn AD-1603 LeAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lebanese Armed Forces

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S-61NR.
    Sikorsky S-61N 61820

    November 1982

    To Bristow USA, Providence, RI with new c/r N1346C.

    From 3 November 1982 to 27 July 2000

    To British Executive Air Services Ltd with new c/r G-BGWK.

    From 27 July 2000 to 2 June 2009

    To Bristow Helicopters Ltd keeping c/r G-BGWK.

    2 June 2009

    To Absolute Fire Solutions (uk Helicopters) Ltd, C/O Hogan and Hartson Corporate Services Ltd, London keeping c/r G-BGWK.

    June 2009

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Lebanese Armed Forces with s/n AD-1603.
    Akhdar Dayem, Beirut, Lebanon.

    2 April 2019


    Photographer: Michael Ward
    Notes: At Beirut, Lebanon
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