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Registration: XW191

Construction Number: WA711

Military Unit: The Eagles.ARWF.

Model Westland-Bell 47G Sioux AH1

Operator: Army Air Corps

Airport: Exeter (EXT / EGTE), UK - England

Airshow: Exeter - Air Show - 1969

Photographer: Chris England

Date Taken: 28/06/1969

Date Submitted: 22/02/2012

Other team members were XT193, XT206, XT509 and XW192. Collided with the rotors of XT509 during a display at Christchurch, Dorset, on 25/8/69. Burnt out in the ensuing crash landing in the garden of a nearby house, the pilot being slightly injured. (The pilot of XT509 was unfortunately killed.)

Picture ID:1335004

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