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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HCC.4
    Last Military Serial:XV733 RAF
    Construction Number:WA0628
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HCC.4 sn XV733 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset - North, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wessex HCC.4 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    13 May 1969

    First flight.

    30 June 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV733.

    13 May 1971


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Wessex HCC.4 of the Queens Flight during a Royal Visit to the Lake District.

    By 1981

    Transferred to Queens Flight, RAF Northolt.

    5 March 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    25 April 1985


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Wessex HCC.4 of the Queens Flight departing Carlisle in the Spring of 1985

    13 March 1998

    Assigned to RAF Shawbury for storage.

    15 November 2001

    Transported by ground.
    RAF Shawbury to Weston-Super-Mare.

    15 November 2001

    Placed on display with The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-North, England.
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    5 November 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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