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

Well, there's six bids already and it comes sans engines...

Can't find it in my logbook when on 18/22/72 Sqn. Anybody know it's history?

HF

Partial history here: XV720 westland Wessex HC.2 C/N wa615 - Helicopter Database

Apparently written off Oct '74 in Germany: Aircraft Accidents

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)

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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

airborne_artist,

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

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.

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!!!

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.

XV720 was at SARTU from Dec 89 until Aug 90 when it disappears from my logbook - presumably went from there to Leuchars.

Launching at Leuchars in the mid 1990s...

http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/o...x_filtered.jpg

SB

Surely this should be a gate guard for the SARTU compound.....? Mind you so should some of the instructors!!:E

Anyone know what the tail number was and what happened to the Wessex that was parked up near the clay pigeon range at Lyneham?

XR528 I believe. Transported on 26 Jan 2012. Possibly to Air & Ground for disposal.

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.

Apparently she is gutted, one seat in it, panel bereft of instruments etc...Such a shame

She was at Chiv back in 1994.

anotherpruner :)

Gnomes are good sellers, they are big in tractor pulling States side, so no real change there then, out of one and into another.