By Steve Mills |
Aircraft History |
XV626 | |||
Fleet Air Arm | |||
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RN, d/d 18 Jun 1968 829Sq Andromeda Flt/472-AM by Mar 1969 until c Oct 1970 To AES Lee-on-Solent Oct 1975 for vibration trials with Southampton University To NATIU Lee-on-Solent Apr 1978 and returned to service, marked 471 Hero Flt for BBC TV series Warship 829Sq Danae Flt/464-DN by 1978 829 Sq Hecate (013) Flt/414 by Jun 1982 still Feb 1983 To Malaysian Navy as M499-06 | |||
21jul79? noted on dump at Lee-on-Solent | |||
Retrieved from dump and returned to flying condition 1979 | |||
1980-04-28 | 28Apr80 noted RNAS Portland coded -.617 of 829 Squadron 03Sep81 noted RNAS Portland coded -,601 of 829 Squadron 829 NAS | ||
1981 to 1983 Hecate (OSS) flight for op corporate and survey operation Antarctica and south atlantic. Flight commander hecate flight | |||
1987-04-22 | 22Apr87 noted RNAS Portland coded HR.325 of 829 Squadron, HMS Herald | ||
M499-06 | |||
Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia | |||
ex UK RN as XV626, to Malaysian Navy as M499-06. wfu 26 Sep 2002 | |||
1997-04-26 | A WMKD | during an exercise de-brief | |
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