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    Airframe Family: Bristol Belvedere
    Latest Model:Belvedere HC.1
    Last Military Serial:XG462 RAF
    Construction Number:13357
    Compressed ID:Bristol Belvedere HC.1 sn XG462 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset - North, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1961

    Constructed as a Belvedere HC.1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XG462.

    September 1961

    Transferred to 66 Squadron, Odiham.
    Operated with markings: H

    November 1961

    Transferred to 72 Squadron.
    Operated with markings: H

    5 October 1963

    Damaged.
    Force-landed near Bomba, Libya, after an in-flight engine fire. Passengers and crew were uninjured. The forward fuselage section was undamaged, and was held in storage at Weston-super-Mare and RAF Henlow.

    September 1989

    To The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-North, England.
    Forward fuselage section only.
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    24 July 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Nose Section only at Helicopter Museum at Weston
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