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    The Westland Wessex is a British-built turbine-powered development of the Sikorsky H-34 (in US service known as Choctaw). It was developed and produced...
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    countries, and the Whirlwind was succeeded by the turbine powered Westland Wessex (based on the Sikorsky H-34) which was developed from the H-19/Whirlwind...
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  • 4 July 1961, the squadron recommissioned at RNAS Culdrose with the Westland Wessex HAS.1. The squadron embarked on HMS Ark Royal in November 1961, moving...
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    hovercraft Saunders-Roe SR.N6 hovercraft Vertol 107 Westland Sea King and Commando Westland Wessex Westland Whirlwind Rolls-Royce Gnome engines are on display...
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  • aircraft Westland Interceptor Westland IV and Wessex Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter Westland Wallace Westland PV-3 (Houston-Westland) Westland PV-6 (Houston-Wallace)...
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  • region's oil boom. Starting on 17 February 1965, the company operated the Westland Wessex 60 ten-seat helicopter to support these off-shore installations. Throughout...
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  • of examples of Westland aircraft. WS-51 - Westland Dragonfly WS-55 - Westland Whirlwind Westland Widgeon WG-58 - Westland Wessex Westland Westminster (1958)...
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    Vickers Viking, Avro York, de Havilland Heron and Devon, Westland Whirlwind, Westland Wessex HCC.4, Douglas Dakota (for the Royal Visit to Nepal in 1960)...
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    relocated to RAF Aldergrove to provide a permanent presence to augment the Westland Wessex of 72 Squadron. In 2009, 230 Squadron relocated to RAF Benson together...
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    extended use when adapted to turbine power by the British licensee as the Westland Wessex and Sikorsky as the later S-58T. H-34s served, mostly as medium transports...
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    The Westland IV and Westland Wessex were British high wing, three-engined light transport aircraft built by Westland Aircraft. In 1928, Westland began...
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    HAS.1 XT778 Westland Wessex HU.5 XS508 Westland Whirlwind HAR.1 XA864 Westland Whirlwind HAR.3 XG574 Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 XG594 Westland Whirlwind HAS...
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    and being instructed when and where to drop it. Unlike the larger Westland Wessex, the Wasp carried no sonar of its own, and was limited strictly to...
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    anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter to replace the Westland Wessex, placing an order with Westland for 60 SH-3D Sea Kings in June 1966. The prototype...
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  • Thomas Hardy's Wessex, a semi-fictional region of England in the novels of Thomas Hardy Westland Wessex, a helicopter Earl of Wessex, an English title...
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    G-ASWI was a Westland Wessex 60, operated by Bristow Helicopters operating between Bacton Gas Terminal, in Norfolk, and Amoco gas platforms in the North...
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    Havilland Sea Vixen, and Fairey Gannet fixed-wing aircraft, together with Westland Whirlwind helicopters. The construction cost of Hermes was £18 million...
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    Westland Wessex HAS.1, XM330 Westland Wessex HAS.3, XM328 Westland Wessex HCC.4, XV733 Westland Wessex 60, G-AVNE Westland 30 Series 100, G-BGHF Westland 30...
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    was the Anti-Submarine Warfare school at RNAS Portland. It operated Westland Wessex HAS.3 rescue helicopters from their land base at RNAS Portland, Dorset...
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    carry four Westland Wessex helicopters for amphibious operations and anti-submarine protection operating "East of Suez" then four Westland Sea Kings for...
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    in the 1984–86 television series Riptide, and remains in service. Westland Wessex helicopters portrayed CH-34 Choctaws in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film...
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  • Westland Wessex HAS.1 700Z NAS 1961-63, RNAS Lossiemouth, Blackburn Buccaneer S.1 700V NAS 1963-64, Westland Wessex HU.5 700W NAS 1963-64, Westland Wasp...
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    aircraft. The larger Westland Whirlwind, Westland Wessex and Westland Sea Kings have been Fleet Air Arm helicopters and, like the Westland Lynx AH Mk 7, the...
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    advice, a tight fitting, fixed side-hangar for the anti-submarine Westland Wessex helicopter was added on the insistence of the First Sea Lord. While...
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  • from an ex-Ghana Air Force Wessex Mk.53 by Bristow at Redhill. 16 operated from 1965 to 1981. Westland Whirlwind Westland AB-47G-4A Aerospatiale SA-330J...
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    Flying accidents in the war zone 2 Westland Wessex HU.5 (crashed in bad weather on Fortune Glacier 22 April) 2 Westland Sea King HC.4 (1 lost operational...
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  • transferred to the two carriers), six Hawker Siddeley Harriers, six Westland Wessex helicopters, and four CH-47 Chinook helicopters (18 Squadron RAF);...
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    September 1974 at RNAS Portland (HMS Osprey). It was equipped with six Westland Wessex HAS. 1, a licence built Sikorsky H-34 utility and anti-submarine warfare...
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    Seafire F.XV (1946) Westland Whirlwind HAS.22 (September 1953 - March 1954) Hiller HT.1 (September - October 1953) Westland Wessex HAS.1 (January 1962...
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  • equipped with its first helicopter, the Westland Whirlwind HAS.7, later replaced with the Westland Wessex HAS.1. The Wessex HAS.3 was introduced in 1967, providing...
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