Westland Scouts in storage at Hawarden 1995

[jetdragon]

Hi All

Trawling the net I came across a photo of Westland Scouts XR632 and (probably) XV126 plus at least 2 others in storage at Hawarden in November 1995. Does anyone have ID's for the others by any chance (or any further info around arrival and departure?)

Any help appreciated

thanks

JD

[viscount]

Off-line PM discussion between Spain and Australia, mostly using late 1995 paper NWAN magazines has uncovered the following:

The two Scouts mentioned above were sold at MoD auction 10th October 1995.

Seven Westland Scout AH.1s arrived at Hawarden by road from RNAY Fleetlands during October '95:

XR632 658 Sqdn badge
XT632 658 Sqdn badge
XT634/T
XT644/Y
XV121
XV126/X 666 Sqdn badge
XW281/U 666 Sqdn badge, also 'Royal Marines' titles - having been displayed at the formation ceremony for 847 Sqdn (previously 3 CBAS)

All the helicopters are up sale and were stored in the Hawarden Air Services hangar.

The duplication of Scout serials in the XR and XT batches provided those spotting at the time considerable headaches - XR632 and XT632 are not a 'typo'.

...... investigation continues as to what became of these machines. If you happen to know it will save us eye-strain searching through the old mags to (hopefully) find out.

[ian531]

Hi

ADU software has the folllowing

XR632 exported to Gambia 1997
XT632 to G-BZBD written 08/2000
XT634 To G-BYRX
XT644 exported to Gambia
XV121 to G-BYKJ
XV126 to G-SCTA
XW281 to G-BYNZ preserved Dungannon

Ian

[jetdragon]

Thanks gentlemen - as always the mine of information this group has come up trumps!!