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    Airframe Family: Westland Lynx
    Latest Model:Lynx HMA.8(SRU)
    Last Military Serial:XZ698 RN
    Construction Number:153
    Compressed ID:Westland Lynx HMA.8(SRU) sn XZ698 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Everett Aero, Moat Farm, Sproughton, Suffolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lynx HAS.2.

    12 February 1980

    First flight.

    10 July 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XZ698.

    By 14 October 1983

    Transferred to 815 NAS, HMS Minerva.
    Noted at RNAS Portland.

    By 14 October 1983

    Markings Applied: 424, MV

    Converted to a Lynx HAS.3S.

    By 28 June 1996

    Transferred to 815 NAS, RNAS Portland.

    By 28 June 1996

    Markings Applied: 305

    28 June 1996


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Waddington Air Show

    28 June 1996


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Converted to a Lynx HMA.8.

    By 17 September 2005

    Transferred to 815 NAS, HMS Chatham.

    By 17 September 2005

    Markings Applied: 348

    17 September 2005


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Show

    By 2 March 2009

    Transferred to 702 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    By 2 March 2009

    Markings Applied: 698

    2 March 2009


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose

    By 5 February 2013

    Converted to a Lynx HMA.8(SRU).

    By 5 February 2013

    Markings Applied: 642

    5 February 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton - in poor light

    2 April 2014

    Transferred to MPSU, Middle Wallop.
    For Reduction to Produce.

    February 2015

    Based at Everett Aero, Moat Farm, Sproughton, Suffolk, England.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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