Originally Posted by
Rigga
I’m sure the Boscombe Down Sea King was a US built SH-3 The Westland Sea King was hugely different from the S61 - I remember the SAR boys in FI trying to nick a S61 tail rotor and all went fine till they found the S61 had six blades.
Yes, XV370 was an SH-3, apparently Sikorsky built the first four UK airframes, the first was completed and had T-58s fitted by Sikorsky, the other three were completed by Westland with Gnomes.