Yeovil(Westland) Sightings Autumn/Winter 2019/20

[mjcmerlin]

Monday 9th December at 1100

ZZ107 AW101 MK612
ZJ992\AB Merlin mk3a Still outside from Friday

[POL]

Thank you judwin and mjcmerlin for your prompt help with my query from Saturday, much appreciated.

[mjcmerlin]

Wednesday 11th December 1000-1200

ZZ102 AW101 MK612
ZZ107 AW101 MK612
ZR361\15-12 HH101A Flew as WHE04
ZZ415 WILDCAT HMA Flew as WHE03
ZH861 Merlin HMA2 Flew as WHE06

AW189 Panels missing white with red stripe towed between hangars

[Judwin71]

Flying this afternoon HH-101 as WHE06, Mode S code 43C913.
Is this ff of ZR362?

Don't think this was ZR362 but ZR361 with a different Mode S Code.

Flying late yesterday afternoon (1530) as WHE01 HH101 Mode S code 43C914. Was this first flight of ZR362 ??
Can anyone confirm.

[mjcmerlin]

Wednesday afternoon

ZH861 Merlin HMA2 returned around 1500 callsign WHE06 from MoD Boscombe Down having departed at lunchtime .

Hope this helps

[mjcmerlin]

Thursday 12th December 1200-1230

ZR361\15-12 HH101A
ZZ108 AW101 MK612 Flew as WHE01

[Judwin71]

Thursday 12th December 1200-1230

ZR361\15-12 HH101A
ZZ108 AW101 MK612 Flew as WHE01

Flying between 1500 and 1600 ZR361 as WHE06 and ZR362 as WHE01 both HH101A

[Kevin Brewer]

A single unidentified HH'101a on the flightline as at 11.40 locsl this morning. Couldn't see the code but MM serial still blanked out.

[mjcmerlin]

Friday 13th Dec 1400-1500

ZR361\15-12 HH101A
ZR362\15-13 HH101A
Merlin HMA2
ZZ513 Wildcat HMA Flew as WHE04

[Kevin Brewer]

Thanks for this merlin. I don't suppose you (or anyone else for that matter!) know which HH-101 it was that I saw earlier?

I returned for another quick look at around 13.45, just as the Wildcat departed, but by then there was only the Merlin HM.2 left on the flight line.

[eagle driver]

09.54 showing as airborne this morning as WHE02 ZR362 HH-101A Hex 43C914
he did one approach to Exeter airport before some general handling over Devon/Dorset before RTB to Yeovil.

[mjcmerlin]

Monday 16th December

ZR362\15-13 HH101A Compass base
ZZ108 AW101 MK612 Flew as WHE02
ZZ415 Wildcat HMA
ZZ513 Wildcat HMA Flew as WHE14

[mjcmerlin]

Wednesday 18th DEC 0900 and 1300

ZZ415 Wildcat HMA Flew AM
ZZ375 Wildcat HMA
ZR362\15-13 HH101A Flew as WHE02
ZZ108 AW101 MK612
A109 (next to hangar)

[timjones]

Other Wildcat ZZ415 fitted with rocket pods.

Cheers,

Tim.

[mjcmerlin]

Friday 20th December 1130

ZZ375 Wildcat HMA Ground Runs
ZZ415 Wildcat HMA Flew as WHE03
ZZ513 Wildcat HMA Flew as WHE14

[mjcmerlin]

20th Dec 1515

ZZ108 AW101 MK612 Flew as WHE01

[Judwin71]

Planning permission passed for hard runway at Westland. 300 meters shorter than present grass runway.
To be completed in 2 stages.

Seasons greetings
Keith

[tm74sqn]

Interesting. The only time that I've been in an aircraft that landed at Westland's Yeovil airfield was during the 1960s - I was passenger in Tiger Moth G-APRX. After arrival we climbed over a fence or gate and had a lift to the RNAS Yeovilton Air Day (or whatever they were called then). Great days!

[mjcmerlin]

Thursday 2nd Jan 2020

ZZ107 AW101 MK612 compass base
G-XXEC A109

[mjcmerlin]

Friday 3rd Jan 2020

ZZ107 AW101 MK612 Flew as WHE06
EI-LIM AW139
I-AWCU AW149
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