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In 1969 Germany ordered 22 Sea Kings to replace H-34G and SH-34J Helicopters. The Mk 41s built for Germany were equipped with much the same navigation and radar equipment as found in the RNs Mk 1s but all the sonar gear was removed and with it the cable-mode hover facility. Additional equipment fitted related to the SAR requirement of searching for very small objects - as small as a human head in a boundless sea. It included the Decca Mk 19 navigator, VOR/ILS (VHF omni-directional range/instrument landing system), ADF370 (automatic direction finding) radio compass and a pack of communication radios compatible with West German ground and air frequencies. Cabin heating system was beefed up - an important feature in SAR operations when survivors are frequently suffering from hypothermia. The Main Cabin was increased from 5.9m to 7.6m and an additional fuel tank was fitted to provide for a total amount of 3000 liter. The Mk.41 Sea King was the pattern for all SAR Sea Kings used by RNoAF, BAF and even the No. 202 Squadron RAF. In 1987 a modernizing program was started. Sea Spray MK3 Radar, Radarwarning AN/ALR 68, Chaff-/Flareanlage M-130 and the capability for firing Sea Skua rockets were implemented. In between the Sea Skua were sent to MFG3 Nordholz and used by the Westland Sea Lynx Mk.88A. 
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| Construction Numbers on database of Sea King Mk.41 | | 23 |  | Marineflieger - German Navy |
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| C/N | Version | Built | History | | wa 744 | | 1972 | 89+50 :
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| wa 745 | | 1972 | 89+51 :
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| wa 756 | | 1973 | 89+52 :
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| wa 757 | | 1973 | 89+53 :
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| wa 758 | | 1973 | 89+54 :
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| wa 759 | | 1972 |  89+55 : To MFG5. This was the famous 'Germany 5' airframe in the Merc Enterprise rescue of Jan 1974 in the western English Channel. Carried special '30 years of the Sea King' paint scheme during 2005, still with MFG5.
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| wa 760 | | 1973 | 89+56 :
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| wa 761 | | 1973 | 89+57 :
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| wa 762 | | 1973 | 89+58 :
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wa 763  | | 1973 | 89+59 : 89+59 was dropped into the north sea by a CH-53G due to problems during a transportation from Helgoland to Kiel w/o
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| wa 764 | | 1973 | 89+60 :
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| wa 765 | | 1974 | 89+61 : w/o after a test flight at Westland. Used for Training at MTS in Kiel/Holtenau.
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| wa 766 | | 1973 | 89+62 :
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| wa 767 | | 1973 | 89+63 :
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| wa 768 | | 1973 | 89+64 : The picture was taken during SAR-MEET in Kiel-Holtenau. It was the 50th annivarsary of SAR Services in Germany.
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| wa 769 | | 1973 | 89+65 :
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| wa 770 | | 1974 | 89+66 :
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| wa 771 | | 1974 | 89+67 : The picture shows the preparations for an rotor fold/unfold demonstration during the SAR-MEET 2008 in Kiel-Holtenau.
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| wa 772 | | 1974 | 89+68 :
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| wa 773 | | 1973 | 89+69 :
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| wa 774 | | 1974 | 89+70 : MFG In May 2009 MFG5 participated in SAR-Meet 2009 from Leeuwarden air base Netherlands
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| wa 775 | | 1974 | 89+71 :
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| wa 830 | | 1974 | 89+61 : Replace for WA 765
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