Skeeter AOP.12


Registration: XN345
Country of origin: UK
Built: Eastleigh, UK, 1960
Manufacturer: Saunders-Roe
Constructor's Number: S2/7151
Engine: One 215hp De Havilland Gipsy Major 215 engine

Type: Two seat observation helicopter

Note: Stored in container.

Details: Delivered to the Army Air Corps in March 1960. Based at Saxmundham, and Holzerlingen near Stuttgart.

Served with 26 Regt, 17 Flt 652 and 654 Sqn, 1 Wing 655 Sqn.

Off charge 20 October 1969. Sold to a civilian owner at Moordrecht, Netherlands. Acquired by the Helicopter Museum in May 2011.

The Museum has restored Skeeter XL811 which is on display in the Main Collection.