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Aerospatiale SE3130 Alouette II c/no 1500. First flown in France in November 1960, with the manufacturer\\'s temporary registration F-WIEQ. Acquired for the British Army Air Corps (AAC) for evaluation as a possible replacement for the Saro Skeeter in December 1960. Delivered to Middle Wallop as part of evaluation order for five Alouettes together with XN132, XN133, XP966 and XR232. For military evaluation purposes it was given the military serial XP967.
First issued for service to Army Air Corps, 12 Independant Liaison Flight AAC, Wildenrath, West Germany 21 December 1960. On 29 June 1983, issued to Army Air Corps, 16 Flight AAC, UNFICYP (UN Forces in Cyprus); operated for UN from Nicosia, Cyprus, as a replacement for XR380 (which crashed 11 June 1983)
Withdrawn from use in December 1988, and stored at RNAY Wroughton, Wiltshire pending disposal. Struck off charge 9 March 1990; total flying time on airframe at this point 8293 hours.
XP967 was sold off for civilian use, being UK registered as G-BSFN on 30 May 1990. After three successive owners as G-BSFN, the helicopter was re-registered as G-UGLY on 7 June 2000. After a further three successive UK-based owners as G-UGLY, the UK registration was cancelled on 13 March 2007 as "Transferred to another country or authority - Hungary". The helicopter then acquired the Hungarian civil registration HA-PPC, although it was flying at the date of the above crash in its former AAC markings as XP967
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