This is a cockpit seat from a Westland Wasp.
I have had a Westland Scout seat before and it has the thinner backplate without the flared lightening holes down the side.
I am assuming it is the RHS aircrew/aimers seat as the ones I have seen have the added structure at the lower back on this seat only.
Cleaning it up I have the numbers 617 in white paint on top RHS. As far as I can see there was no Wasp with a 617 serial.
It has been overpainted at some time on an earlier number.
There were Scouts with 617 but the rear seat mounting brackets/position on a Scout was different so not a simple conversion.( Last picture is Scout seat.)
Any idea as to what the painted number refers to ?
By: FarlamAirframes - 4th December 2024 at 13:05
FYI I sent a note to Farnborough and they replied this morning with pictures confirming that they have both seats for the Wasp XV631 cockpit section they have in store. Unlike this one , 617 is stencilled on the back in large numbers on the LHS seat.
Of course it may have come from an earlier refit.
By: hypersonic - 25th November 2024 at 21:03
That isn’t the site I used but that’s the airframe. I note it is in storage at Farnborough.
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By: FarlamAirframes - 25th November 2024 at 20:07
Thank you Hypersonic
This one
http://www.eurodemobbed.org.uk/locations.php?location=1469#
By: hypersonic - 25th November 2024 at 19:32
Firstly the Captain on helicopters sit in the right hand seat. Fixed wing aircraft are the other way around of course.
The seat, I would suggest, comes from Wasp XV631. The airframe ditched in the Indian Ocean 15 May 1972. It was recovered and repaired (a practice that wouldn’t be acceptable today!!). It was next flown by 829 Sqn FAA where it carried the Sqn code “617”.
The airframe was last seen at the Farnborough Air Sciences Museum, during Feb 2010 (cabin only).
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