Saro Skeeter AOP.12 XM555 has been transferred to the North East Land Sea and Air Museum (NELSAM) from the RAF Museum. A two-seat training and scout helicopter produced by Saunders-Roe (Saro), it has the distinction of being the first helicopter used by the British Army Air Corps (AAC) in 1959. Several Skeeter AOR 12s also operated with the Central Flying School of the RAF. This particular example was ordered in 1957 and its service history was primarily with the AAC. After being declared surplus to requirements in the late 1960s it was allocated to various RAF stations across the country for training or display before finding a home in the early 1980s at the Aerospace Museum RAF Cosford - now RAF Museum Cosford. In 2003 it was transported to the museum's London site for display before entering storage in 2010.
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