Serial | WA.291 | |||||||||||||||
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First Flight | 12.2.1960 | |||||||||||||||
Model | Whirlwind HAR.9 | |||||||||||||||
Status | Scrapped | |||||||||||||||
Comments | dbr 27.1.1975 when main rotors severed tail boom & smashed hole in cockpit roof during crash-landing at Peel Common, Hampshire, following engine failure; stripped for parts & used as a GIA at RNAY Fleetlands 18.9.1975 as A2643 (parts used on XN297); to RNAS Lee-on-Solent for BDRT 07.1984; GIA at HMS Royal Arthur, Corsham, Wilts 07.7.1987; sold for scrap 1988; | |||||||||||||||
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