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Registration / Serial:WV195
Military Code:G
Aircraft Original Type:Sikorsky S-55
Aircraft Generic Type:Sikorsky S-55 (H-19/HO4S/HRS/Chickasaw)
Aircraft Version:Sikorsky HRS-2 Whirlwind HAR21 (S-55B)
C/n (msn):55286
Operator Titles:UK - Navy
Location:Not known
Country:Malaysia
Photo Date:1955
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Photo ID:646630Submit Correction
View count: 293
Mishap in the Malayan jungle. Serial WV195 readable, code G of No 848 Sqn confirmed. Ex BuNo 130188, supplied to Britain as early as November 1952 to fight communist rebels in Malaysia. Repaired after this accident. Sent back to Britain in 1957, but retired in 1958 and burnt in 1963 for an instructional filming. Photo by: Harrison Forman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Registration / Serial:WV195
Aircraft Version:Sikorsky HRS-2 Whirlwind HAR21 (S-55B)
C/n (msn):55286
Operator Titles:UK - Navy
Location:Not known
Country:Malaysia
Photo Date:1955
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Registration / Serial:WV195
Military Code:G
Aircraft Original Type:Sikorsky S-55
Aircraft Generic Type:Sikorsky S-55 (H-19/HO4S/HRS/Chickasaw)
Aircraft Version:Sikorsky HRS-2 Whirlwind HAR21 (S-55B)
C/n (msn):55286
Operator Titles:UK - Navy
Location:Not known
Country:Malaysia
Photo Date:1955
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Photo ID:646630Submit Correction
View count: 293
Mishap in the Malayan jungle. Serial WV195 readable, code G of No 848 Sqn confirmed. Ex BuNo 130188, supplied to Britain as early as November 1952 to fight communist rebels in Malaysia. Repaired after this accident. Sent back to Britain in 1957, but retired in 1958 and burnt in 1963 for an instructional filming. Photo by: Harrison Forman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Registration / Serial:WV195
Aircraft Version:Sikorsky HRS-2 Whirlwind HAR21 (S-55B)
C/n (msn):55286
Operator Titles:UK - Navy
Location:Not known
Country:Malaysia
Photo Date:1955
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Registration / Serial:130186
Alternate Serial:186
Aircraft Original Type:Sikorsky S-55
Aircraft Generic Type:Sikorsky S-55 (H-19/HO4S/HRS/Chickasaw)
Aircraft Version:Sikorsky HRS-2 Whirlwind HAR21 (S-55B)
C/n (msn):55284
Operator Titles:UK - Navy
City / Airport:Gosport (closed)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:2 December 1952 to 9 December 1952
Photo from:Peter de Jong CollectionContact
Photo ID:508801Submit Correction
View count: 306
No 848 NAS reformed at Gosport on 29 October 1952 and hastily worked up with ten HRS-2 helicopters to leave for the 'Malayan Emergency' with the ferry carrier HMS Perseus. 130186 to WV196, code H, but wears the last three of its US Navy serial here. Crashed in the Malayan jungle on 14 November 1956.
Registration / Serial:130186
Alternate Serial:186
Aircraft Version:Sikorsky HRS-2 Whirlwind HAR21 (S-55B)
C/n (msn):55284
Operator Titles:UK - Navy
City / Airport:Gosport (closed)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:2 December 1952 to 9 December 1952
Photo from:Peter de Jong CollectionContact
Registration / Serial:130186
Alternate Serial:186
Aircraft Original Type:Sikorsky S-55
Aircraft Generic Type:Sikorsky S-55 (H-19/HO4S/HRS/Chickasaw)
Aircraft Version:Sikorsky HRS-2 Whirlwind HAR21 (S-55B)
C/n (msn):55284
Operator Titles:UK - Navy
City / Airport:Gosport (closed)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:2 December 1952 to 9 December 1952
Photo from:Peter de Jong CollectionContact
Photo ID:508801Submit Correction
View count: 306
No 848 NAS reformed at Gosport on 29 October 1952 and hastily worked up with ten HRS-2 helicopters to leave for the 'Malayan Emergency' with the ferry carrier HMS Perseus. 130186 to WV196, code H, but wears the last three of its US Navy serial here. Crashed in the Malayan jungle on 14 November 1956.
Registration / Serial:130186
Alternate Serial:186
Aircraft Version:Sikorsky HRS-2 Whirlwind HAR21 (S-55B)
C/n (msn):55284
Operator Titles:UK - Navy
City / Airport:Gosport (closed)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:2 December 1952 to 9 December 1952
Photo from:Peter de Jong CollectionContact