The Hiller HT.2 (Model 12E) helicopter XS 159 coded Y/B in a hangar at the temporary base of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Sibu, Sarawak.
A starboard quarter view of the Hiller HT.2 (Model 12E) helicopter XS 159 coded Y/B in a canvas hangar 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 suffered an ignition failure and landed on a shingle bank in the Baleh River, Sarawak, on 2 October 1964. She was airlifted to Sibu by the Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 128 coded F/B and repaired.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19532 |
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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 |