c/n 1484
XP821/MCO*
• Delivered 30/08/61
• XP821 Army Air Corps • f/f 03/11/61
• To Borneo • Aircraft inverted in landing at Tawau when pax had feet on toe brakes as wheels touched ground 22/01/66 • Recovered by Wessex and declared Cat 3 24/01/66
• To British Embassy Vientiane, Laos 05/70
• Served in Malaysia and Singapore with 4 Wing ACC and 130 Flight Royal Corps of Transport until 1970 when it was loaned, with an Army pilot, to Foreign and Commonwealth Office for use by the British Embassy in Laos. It was given its distinctive paint scheme to demonstrate its neutrality in the war then raging in that country, but this did not save it from coming under fire while flying up the Mekong River. The Russian made RPG-7 missile passed through the port wing, narrowly missing a fuel line. XP821 left Vientiane in 1975 and was withdrawn from service shortly afterwards.
• tt 1,343.2
• Approximate distance flown 147,752 km and 1,730 pax carried
• Painted white with light grey undersides • Withdrawn from Laos 01/08/75
• Flown to Tengah, dismantled and airfreighted to UK
• To AAC museum 02/10/85 in same colours
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