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Date: | Tuesday 15 April 1975 |
Time: | |
Type: | Westland Sioux AH.1 |
Owner/operator: | British Army Air Corps (AAC) |
Registration: | XT242 |
MSN: | WA401 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Barton Stacey, miles SE of Andover, Hampshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Middle Wallop, Hampshire (EGVP) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:XT242 was being operated by the Army Air Corps Advanced Rotary Wing Flight (AWRF) as part of the "Blue Eagles" Display team when it crash-landed near Barton Stacey, 7 miles south east of Andover, Hampshire on 15/4/1975 after the main rotor hit the ground during display training.
To the Wessex Aviation Society and rebuilt for static display using parts from XW179 (crashed 28/08/1979)l Later to Aeroventure at Doncaster, South Yorkshire and still extant in 2010
Sources:
1.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1975.htm 2.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michaelfitch/bell47.htm 3.
http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=1003 4.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130717113810/http://daveg4otu.tripod.com:80/hancrash.html 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Stacey Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Jun-2013 08:52 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
12-Jun-2013 08:58 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Embed code] |
30-May-2014 19:45 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Embed code, Narrative] |
26-Jul-2015 14:21 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
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