Westland Whirlwind HAS.7, XM665 / WA256, Royal Navy
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Registration: XM665
Construction Number: WA256
Code Number: CU-L
Model Westland Whirlwind HAS.7
Operator: Royal Navy
Airport: Plymouth - Roborough (EGHD), UK - England
Airshow: Plymouth - Air Show - 1963
Photographer: Chris England
Date Taken: 15/06/1963
Date Submitted: 21/04/2012
Written off on 9-10-68 in a forced landing in a field near Weymouth. Although it was repaired at Fleetlands it never flew again, and it was eventually preserved by the Royal Australian Navy Museum in Nowra, NSW, where it has been since April 1994. The Varsity behind is WJ949/S, and must have been a challenge to land on Plymouth's short grass runway! Photo taken when I was just 12, with a Kodak Brownie 127 camera.
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