Westland Algerian and Italian Merlins

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Westland Algerian and Italian Merlins

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Some from this Week at Westlands

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cheers Rich
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Re: Westland Algerian and Italian Merlins

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Hi Rich,

Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Why does the second Merlin have this different serialnumber (G-17-610) ? Is that a testregi???
At Le Bourget Air Salon I noted EH-101 Mk510 G-17-510.
Is this one also going to Algeria?

cheers, Per
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Re: Westland Algerian and Italian Merlins

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G-17 is a factory registration for test flying G-17 is Westland Haqndley Page had G-7 DeHaviland / Hawker Siddley had a different one. This enables the aircraft to fly between the coimpany's fields and on test flights, simular to the PH-Ex & PH-Ez for Fokkers and F-W in France
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Re: Westland Algerian and Italian Merlins

Post by Hans Rolink »

A so called Class-B registration, those G-xx-xx jobs.
Nice images, well exposed. Thanks for sharing.

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