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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-61 / H-3 / Sea King
    Latest Model:Sea King HAS.5
    Last Military Serial:XV712 RN
    Construction Number:WA0683
    Compressed ID:Westland Sea King HAS.5 sn XV712 RN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea King HAS.1 by Westland.

    8 March 1972

    First flight.
    Piloted by D.F.Farquharson.

    17 April 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XV712.

    28 August 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Sea King HAS.1 of 814 Squadron aboard HMS Hermes on display at the 1976 Portsmouth Navy Day.

    By 1987

    Converted to a Sea King HAS.5 by Westland.

    By June 1987

    To 814 Squadron, RNAS Portland, Dorset.
    Markings added: L, 273

    18 July 1997


    Photographer: C Peter Russell-Smith
    Notes: Photographed at RAF Fairford.

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Sea King HAS.6, callsign Navy 270, of 814 Squadron on display at the 1997 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Sea King HAS.6, callsign Navy 270, of 814 Squadron on display at the 1997 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    24 July 1999


    Photographer: Unknown

    By August 1999

    20 November 2000

    In the inventory of HMS Sultan-Defence School of Maritime Engineering, Gosport, Hampshire, England.
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    8 April 2008


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Gosport, England

    27 May 2010

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    Markings Applied: 66

    2 October 2018


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: In the hangar at Duxford IWM.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Aerodata Quantum+
    Fleet Air Arm Helicopters since 1943 (2011, ISBN 0-85130-304-9) by Lee Howard, Mick Burrow amp; Eric Myall
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Peter Nicholson
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