Survivors
Over 69 aircraft remain in private ownership, dumped or in museums including the RAF Museum and the Fleet Air Arm Museum as well as being the current gate guardian at RAF Odiham.
- Whirlwind HAR.10 XJ729/G-BVGE Was bought for scrap in 1992, restored to flight that year and flew regularly until its departure to Ireland in the late 90's. She was a regular airshow performer during the mid 90's including RIAT in 1995 - Currently owned by James Kelly in Ireland, her permit to fly expired late 2008 and was not renewed, according to the CAA website she was declared "No Flight" As of 16/12/2010 ending the career of the last airworthy civilian Whirlwind.
- Whirlwind Series 3 G-APWN, Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England. Sometimes open for viewing.
- Whirlwind HAR.10 XD163 at The Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare, England.
- Whirlwind HAR.10 XP345 At Aeroventure, South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum, Doncaster England owned by the Yorkshire Helicopter Preservation Group.
- Whirlwind HAR.10 XP355 At the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich Airport, England.
- Whirlwind XG576 / CU-590 (cn WA71) Named "Princess Olivia". Ex Bristow Helicopters G-AYNP. Originally delivered to the Royal Navy as XG576 in 1955. At Alten (Buseck), Germany.
- Whirlwind HAR.9 XL875 at Scone Airfield, Perth, Scotland.
- Whirlwind HAR.9 XN258 At the North East Aircraft Museum, Restoration nearing completion as of October 2010.
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Famous quotes containing the word survivors:
“I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.”
—Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)
“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don’t know how to handle their parents. They see that their parents are traumatized: they scream and don’t react normally.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)