The Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 154 coded V/B on the ground at the temporary base of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Sibu, Sarawak
A port bow view of the Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 154 coded V/B on the ground at the temporary base of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Sibu, Sarawak, which operated from 19 August 1963 to 23 June 1965 during the Indonesian and Malaysian Confrontation. The aircraft is being serviced. In the background is the stripped down hull of the HAS.1 helicopter XS 153 coded T/B. She suffered a fuel system failure on take-off and crashed from 60 feet onto the football pitch at Belaga Town on 23 September 1964. She was stripped down to her component parts are arrived at Sibu on 23 October. Her parts were airlifted to Sembawang on 9 November 1964 for subsequent rebuilding.
Object Details
ID: | PCT19530 |
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Type: | Colour transparency |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
Events: | Indonesian and Malaysian confrontation, 1963-1966 |
Date made: | October 1964 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |
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