Dates

Event

1970

Constructed as a Wessex 60 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

1970

To Westland Helicopters with c/r G-17-5.
Test registration.

21 July 1971

To Bristow Helicopters, Redhill, Surrey, UK with c/r G-AZBY.

August 1971

Photographer: Avia-dejavu.
Notes: At Gatwick Airport, London

18 November 1980

To Bristow Helicopters (Nigeria) Ltd with c/r 5N-ALR.

1 December 1981

To Bristow Helicopters, Redhill, Surrey, UK with c/r G-AZBY (WESTLAND WESSEX 60 SERIES 1, WA740).

23 November 1982

Civil registration, G-AZBY, cancelled.

By 1987

Used in Stanley Kubricks Vietnam War movie - Full Metal Jacket.

July 1993

Photographer: David Unsworth
Notes: At the Helicopter Museum at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK

The Imperial Helicopter Museum, at Weston-Super -Mare, UK - still in its movie paint scheme.

One of a number of helicopters moved to Bruce OMalleys yard in Harewood Road, Christchurch, New Zealand.

To Brian Hall/Imperial Discount Liquor Store, Barbadoes Street, Christchurch.

Markings Applied: painted pink/red - in fake ZK-IDL marks.- the IDL being the Company initials.
Parked in the Imperial Discount Liquor Store car park.

24 December 2000

Photographer: David Paull
Notes: One of the Helicopter batch that arrived at Bruce OMalleys yard in Harewood Road, Christchurch - stripped of re-useable parts

December 2002

Photographer: David Paull
Notes: Parked in the car park of the Imperial Discount Liquor store in Barbadoes Street, Christchurch

11 January 2007

Photographer: David Paull
Notes: Exposed to the sun and the night time vagrants it slowly deteriorated (and the paint faded) until eventually it was damaged when a truck backed into one of its drooping rotor blades

13 January 2007

To Ferrymead Heritage Park, Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island.
View the Location Dossier

11 July 2009

Photographer: David Paull
Notes: Stored at the rear of the Ferrymead Aeronautical building in Christchurch, New Zealand