Fleet Air Arm in 1961 and with the Royal Air Force (RAF) the following year. One of the key differences between the Wessex and its Choctaw progenitor was the replacement of the piston engine ...

Nine Wessexes were lost during the campaign. The RAF was the governmental entity to retire the Wessex, doing so in 2003. As for the actual H-34 Choctaw being “impersonated” (so to speak ...