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    Airframe Family: Saunders-Roe (Saro) P.531 / Westland Scout AH.1/Wasp HAS.1
    Latest Model:Wasp HAS.1
    Last Military Serial:NZ3906 RNZN
    Construction Number:F9570
    Compressed ID:Westland Wasp HAS.1 sn NZ3906 RNZN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Force Museum, Wigram Airport, Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wasp HAS.1 by Westland.

    3 April 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XS543.

    Circa 1982

    Transferred to 829 NAS, RNAS Portland.

    By 1982

    Markings Applied: 602

    25 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Middle Wallop Air Show

    3 December 1982

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Navy with s/n NZ3906.
    NZ3906 arrived in New Zealand aboard HMNZS Wellington in December 1982.

    1986


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1986 photo at Nowra, New South Wales

    1998

    To Air Force Museum, Wigram Airport, Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island.
    This aircraft was donated to the Museum by GKN Westland Industrial Products in 1998.
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     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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