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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HAS.3
    Last Military Serial:XM833 RN
    Construction Number:WA0014
    Compressed ID:Westland Wessex HAS.3 sn XM833 RN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

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

    15 March 1960

    First flight.
    Piloted by J Frazer.

    5 April 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XM833.

    26 July 1972


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: In 1972 this Wessex served with 820 Naval Air Squadron aboard HMS Blake and is seen at the 1972 Culdrose Air Show.

    4 February 1983

    To Second World War Aircraft Preservation Society, Lasham Airport, Lasham, Hampshire, England.
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    14 July 2002


    Photographer: John Bennett

    24 May 2010

    To North East Land, Sea and Air Museums, Sunderland, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England.
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    5 June 2011


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With everything open at the North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland, UK

    16 November 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Stored outside adjacent to the Viscount

    To North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England.
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    To South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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    8 June 2019


    Photographer: VIN (V77RFC)
    Notes: Now at St.Athans, South Wales

    27 January 2024


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: At South Wales Air Museum
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     Fleet Air Arm Helicopters since 1943 (2011, ISBN 0-85130-304-9) by Lee Howard, Mick Burrow amp; Eric Myall
    South Wales Aviation Group
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     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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