OLLY: Thanks for the info. My time with 66 Sqdn. was spent entirely at Seletar although there were many detachments into what is now West Malaysia. It always appeared that the 66 Sqdn. detachment at Labuan was a fully autonomous unit as neither helicopters, aircrew or groundcrew had any rotation schedule.
'Bunny' Austin was my first CO and then sometime in 1966 he was replaced by Peter Grey. The two couldn't have been more different, Austin was outgoing and forthright while Grey was very quiet spoken and impeccably polite. In fact, I've often thought that 'Bunny' Austin and Alan Bristow had very similar personalities. By the way, is this Peter Grey that same person who does helicopter flight tests for Flight International?
Finally, what is about this ungainly helicopter with its rather checkered record that keeps people coming back to it?