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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:Wessex HU.5
    Last Military Serial:XT469 RAF
    Construction Number:WA0291
    Latest Owner or Location:Ream Hills Salvage / Ream Hills Holiday Park,, South Shore - Weeton, Lancashire / Lancs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wessex HU.5 by Westland at Yeovil, Somerset.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XT469.

    To Stafford, Staffordshire/Staffs, England.
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    24 July 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Wessex HU.5 of 848 Naval Air Squadron on a visit to Edinburgh in the Summer of 1973.

    3 September 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Wessex HU.5 of 737 Naval Air Squadron in action at the 1977 RNAS Yeovilton Air Day.

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Yeovilton.

    27 May 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Wessex HU.5 of 772 Squadron in the static park at the 1978 Bassingbourn Airshow.

    Based at Ream Hills Salvage/Ream Hills Holiday Park, , South Shore-Weeton, Lancashire/Lancs, England.
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    24 May 2014


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Westland Wessex HU.5 XT469 at Weeton
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