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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-61 / H-3 / Sea King
    Latest Model:Sea King HU.5SAR
    Last Military Serial:XV673 RN
    Construction Number:WA0661
    Compressed ID:Westland Sea King HU.5SAR sn XV673...
    Latest Owner or Location:HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea King HAS.2A by Westland.

    18 September 1970

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XV673.

    By July 1980

    Transferred to 706 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.
    Noted at RNAS Airshow on 23 July 1980.

    Circa July 1980

    Markings Applied: 583, CU

    Circa 1982

    Transferred to 824 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.

    Circa 1983

    Transferred to 706 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.

    Circa 1984

    Transferred to RNAY Fleetlands.
    For conversion.

    Circa 1984

    Converted to a Sea King HAS.5 by Westland.

    Circa 1984

    Transferred to 810 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.

    Circa 1984

    Markings Applied: 12
    Code is 512, only 12 marked.

    17 February 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton

    Circa 1987

    Transferred to 706 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.

    Circa 1987

    Markings Applied: 588

    Circa 1989

    Transferred to RNAY Fleetlands.

    Circa 1990

    Transferred to 706 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.

    By 1993

    Converted to a Sea King HAS.6 by Westland.

    By May 1993


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 1995

    Assigned to RNAY Fleetlands for storage.

    Circa 1996

    Converted to a Sea King HU.5SAR by Westland.
    At RNAY Fleetlands.

    Circa 1997

    Transferred to 706 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.

    Circa 1997

    Markings Applied: 597

    Circa 1998

    Assigned to NARO, RNAY Fleetlands for storage.

    Circa 2000

    Transferred to Air Engineering and Survival School, AESS, HMS Sultan, Gosport.

    Circa 2002

    Assigned to DARA Fleetlands for storage.

    Circa 2003

    Markings Applied: 827

    Circa 2004

    Transferred to 771 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.

    Circa 2004

    Markings Applied: 827, RESCUE, 27, RESCUE, CU

    19 July 2005


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Day

    By June 2015

    Markings Applied: RESCUE, 27, RESCUE

    18 June 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose

    18 June 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose

    2016

    To HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, England.
    Gate Guardian.
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    Credits
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    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Internet Sources
     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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