Westland Wessex HAS1, XS873 / WA253, Royal Navy
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Registration: XS873
Construction Number: WA253
Code Number: CU-525
Military Unit: 771 Squadron
Model Westland Wessex HAS1
Operator: Royal Navy
Airport: Exeter (EXT / EGTE), UK - England
Photographer: Chris England
Date Taken: 23/02/1978
Date Submitted: 01/02/2015
In use with a number of other helicopters (including 3 other 771 Sqn Wessex HAS1s), airlifting supplies into remote locations on Dartmoor cut off by a very heavy snowstorm. Became A2686 and used for fire practice at Predannack until scrapped in 8/95.
Picture ID:1483407