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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HAS.3
    Last Military Serial:XM328 RN
    Construction Number:WA0009
    Latest Owner or Location:The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset - North, England

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    Dates

    Event

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

    4 March 1960

    First flight.
    Piloted by L.C.E. De Vigne.

    26 July 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XM328.

    25 July 1979


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: XM328 : Westland Wessex HAS.3 : Royal NavyFrom 737 NAS, coded 653/PO, based at RNAS Portland, Dorset - At Culdroses 1979 Open Day.

    13 May 2004

    Placed on display with The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-North, England.
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    16 September 2017


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Aerodata Quantum+
    Fleet Air Arm Helicopters since 1943 (2011, ISBN 0-85130-304-9) by Lee Howard, Mick Burrow amp; Eric Myall
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
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