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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HAS.1
    Last Military Serial:XM330 RN
    Construction Number:WA0011
    Latest Owner or Location:The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset - North, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1959

    Constructed as a Wessex HAS.1 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    November 1959

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XM330.

    By 1974

    Transferred to AAEE Boscombe Down.
    Transferred for experimental flying and support work.

    7 September 1974


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Farnborough Air Show

    1976

    Repainted in the red/white/blue raspberry ripple colour scheme.

    8 September 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Wessex HAS.1 of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough overflying the display area of the 1978 Farnborough Airshow.

    Involved in an incident.
    Involved in a ground running accident at Farnborough.

    Written off as uneconomic to repair.

    May 1994

    To The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-North, England.
    Donated to the museum by BAe.
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    24 July 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2009 photo at The Helicopter Museum
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