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Boeing Agusta Westland WAH-64D Apache Helicopter ZJ198 Army Air Corps (British Army

Boeing Agusta Westland WAH-64D Apache Helicopter ZJ198 Army Air Corps (British Army) Based at Wattisham Suffolk UK

Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire

At one of there Flying Day Shows on the 4th Aug 2021

 

Wattisham airfield was opened in 1939 and used by the RAF as a Bomber base flying Bristol Blenheim Bombers in 1942 it was handed over to the USAAF for the rest of WWII and P-38 Lightning’s and the P-51 Mustang’s use to fly from the base

After WWII the base was handed back to the RAF and other aircraft to have been stationed at Wattisham include Meteors, Hawker Hunters including the Black Arrows formation team, English Electric Lightnings, Gloster Javelin and the McDonnell Douglas Phantoms In 1993 the base was handed over to the Army

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Uploaded on November 7, 2021
Taken on August 4, 2021