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NutLoose
9th Feb 2012, 12:04
Just been released from the MOD I believe and by the looks of it has lived indoors.

Westland Wessex HC2 XV720 Royal Air Force Helicopter | eBay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Westland-Wessex-HC2-XV720-Royal-Air-Force-Helicopter-/180813291595?pt=UK_CPV_Aviation_SM&hash=item2a194fe04b)

Airborne Aircrew
9th Feb 2012, 12:13
Well, there's six bids already and it comes sans engines...

Hummingfrog
9th Feb 2012, 13:00
Can't find it in my logbook when on 18/22/72 Sqn. Anybody know it's history?

HF

Dockers
9th Feb 2012, 13:10
Partial history here: XV720 westland Wessex HC.2 C/N wa615 - Helicopter Database (http://www.helis.com/database/cn/14557/)

Apparently written off Oct '74 in Germany: Aircraft Accidents (http://www.dasa.mod.uk/modintranet/publications/aircraftAccidents/Wessex.html)

hval
9th Feb 2012, 13:41
Some photographs here (http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photos/XV720:629004:1.html) of XV720 and here (http://www.helis.com/database/cn/14557/)

Delivered to R.A.F. on 02/01/1968

B Flight 22 Squadron & FSCTE Manston. Have seen mentions of Search & rescue training at R.A.F. Valley as well.

Was at R.A.F. Leuchars 1970

Was involved in an incident in West Germany, 6 miles South of Osterode 08 October 1974. Technical fault; Category 4 (damage not repairable on site). She was written off.

Obviously someone fixed her.

She was in Belgium September 1987, H.M.S. Gosport 2006 to 2009 (may have been there longer than that)

airborne_artist
9th Feb 2012, 13:49
H.M.S. Gosport?

None of the three HMS Gosports ever operated any aircraft, on account of the last two being broken up in 1735 and 1768, and the first one being captured by the French in 1706. :8

hval
9th Feb 2012, 14:14
airborne_artist,

You are totally correct. What a load of borrocks I wrote. What I should have written is H.M.S. Sultan, Gosport

Floppy Link
9th Feb 2012, 14:43
XV720 was at Leuchars in August 1992, flew her several times before getting chopped from SAR.

--- interval, ground tour ---

On arriving at Sixty Sqn at Benson there she was again, now in green. (We did have a yellow one at Benson for a while for some reason but that was XT602.)

Last flown Jan 1994, was IF safety pilot for Frosty.

Could be the last?
9th Feb 2012, 14:43
It was probably sat in the car park at the back of the eng workshops. MASU? There was quite a few airframes used for BDR practice, scattered near the'Fort!!!

Motleycallsign
9th Feb 2012, 15:31
Crashed on Ex Pegout while operating with 18 (B) Sqn in Germany. Thankfully both crew got out virtually unharmed. Last appeared in my logbook early Aug '74.

9th Feb 2012, 18:14
XV720 was at SARTU from Dec 89 until Aug 90 when it disappears from my logbook - presumably went from there to Leuchars.

sunshine band
9th Feb 2012, 18:20
Launching at Leuchars in the mid 1990s...

http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo116/sband/xv720adx_filtered.jpg

SB

Could be the last?
9th Feb 2012, 18:35
Surely this should be a gate guard for the SARTU compound.....? Mind you so should some of the instructors!!:E

Always a Sapper
9th Feb 2012, 22:20
Anyone know what the tail number was and what happened to the Wessex that was parked up near the clay pigeon range at Lyneham?

hval
10th Feb 2012, 09:00
XR528 I believe. Transported on 26 Jan 2012. Possibly to Air & Ground for disposal.

upgently
10th Feb 2012, 16:06
Just been checking through the old log book - very old - and it shows that 720 spent a great deal of time at Leuchars My log book shows that I enjoyed 203 sorties on her of which 27 were SAR Op tasks. Those really were the days.

NutLoose
10th Feb 2012, 16:27
Apparently she is gutted, one seat in it, panel bereft of instruments etc...Such a shame

anotherpruner
10th Feb 2012, 16:58
She was at Chiv back in 1994.

anotherpruner :)

NutLoose
10th Feb 2012, 17:06
Gnomes are good sellers, they are big in tractor pulling States side, so no real change there then, out of one and into another.