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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:XT427 RN
    Construction Number:F9597
    Compressed ID:Westland Wasp HAS.1 sn XT427 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve collection - Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wasp HAS.1 by Westland.

    12 April 1965

    First flight.

    24 May 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XT427.

    By January 1980

    Transferred to 703 NAS, RNAS Portland.
    Noted at RNAS Yeovilton 28 Jan 1980.

    By January 1980

    Markings Applied: 502

    By July 1983

    Transferred to 829 NAS, RNAS Portland.

    By July 1983

    Markings Applied: 606

    16 July 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Portland Air Show (scanned from a print)

    6 September 1983

    Crashed.
    Ditched near HMS Apollo off Portland after suffering severe vibration and loss of power during deck landing, aircraft recovered.

    After September 1983

    Transferred to AIU, RNAS Lee-On-Solent.
    For fault investigation.

    28 March 1984

    Transported by ground.
    To FAAM, RNAS Yeovilton.

    28 March 1984

    In the inventory of Fleet Air Arm Museum-Reserve collection-Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    23 May 1984

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Navy.

    From 23 September 1986 to 23 April 1999

    Loaned to Flambards Holiday Village (formerly known as Cornwall Aero Park), Helston, Cornwall, England.
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    27 July 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Flambard Holiday Village, Helston, UK

    23 April 1999

    Returned from loan to Fleet Air Arm Museum-Reserve collection-Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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