Anyone feeling flush, rather nice Wessex up for sale
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Anyone feeling flush, rather nice Wessex up for sale
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
Westland Wessex HC2 XV720 Royal Air Force Helicopter | eBay
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Partial history here: XV720 westland Wessex HC.2 C/N wa615 - Helicopter Database
Apparently written off Oct '74 in Germany: Aircraft Accidents
Apparently written off Oct '74 in Germany: Aircraft Accidents
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Some photographs here of XV720 and here
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)
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)
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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.
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.
--- 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.
XV720 was at SARTU from Dec 89 until Aug 90 when it disappears from my logbook - presumably went from there to Leuchars.
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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.
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Apparently she is gutted, one seat in it, panel bereft of instruments etc...Such a shame
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Gnomes are good sellers, they are big in tractor pulling States side, so no real change there then, out of one and into another.
