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
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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