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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HAS.3
    Last Military Serial:XT257 RAF
    Construction Number:WA0241
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HAS.3 sn XT257 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1965

    Constructed as a Wessex HAS.3 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XT257.
    Never saw operational service with the Royal Navy, spending its flying career on development flying.

    From 1966 to 1967

    Transferred to A and AEE Boscombe Down.
    During 1966/67 it went to A and AEE Boscombe Down testing flight control systems and radio evaluation.

    By 1980

    Withdrawn from use.

    New serial number assigned: 8719M RAF

    1995

    Transferred to No. 1 School Technical Training, Cosford.

    At some stage it acquired the yellow colour scheme of a RAF HAR.2 rescue variant, which it never was. Sold to a private owner in West Sussex in 1998,.

    January 2005

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
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    By 16 May 2012

    Markings Applied: RAF RESCUE, ROYAL AIR FORCE RESCUE, XT257

    16 May 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Bournemouth Aviation Museum

    16 May 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Cockpit of Westland Wessex HAS.3 at Bournemouth Aviation Museum
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