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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-55 / H-19 / HRS / HO4S / Whirlwind
    Latest Model:Whirlwind HAR.10
    Last Military Serial:XP339 RAF
    Construction Number:WA.355
    Compressed ID:Westland Whirlwind HAR.10 sn XP339...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum fur Luftfahrt und Technik, Wernigerode, Saxony-Anhalt

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Whirlwind HAR.10 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    5 January 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XP339.

    By May 1974

    Transferred to 32 Squadron, RAF Northolt, Greater London.

    From October 1984 to July 1987

    To Bomber County Aviation Museum, RAF Hemswell, Lincoln, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    July 1992

    To Flugausstellung Peter Junior, Abtei, Hermeskeil, Rhineland-Palatinate.
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    April 2001

    To Museum fur Luftfahrt und Technik, Wernigerode, Saxony-Anhalt.
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    7 September 2013


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