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Long-serving and highly successful, Westland’s Sea King became one of the most recognisable helicopter designs in history. Malcolm V Lowe examines the type’s development and use by Britain’s Royal Navy in light of Airfix's newly tooled 1/48 kit.
Read our full-build of Airfix's new-tool 1/48 Westland Sea King here.
Westland Aircraft Ltd was an established and successful aircraft design and manufacturing company even prior to World War Two. Although the Yeovil, Somerset-based organisation was formed as an independent firm in 1935, it could trace its aeronautical ancestry as far back as 1915.
