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| Del'd: 3 - 1959 to 1964
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Short trials life for two P.531 O/N and one P.531-1. Unlike their Army Air Corps counterparts, these 3 P.531s were never reworked into their Wasp HAS.1 equivalents.  |
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| | s2/5268 | | 1958 | XN332: dd into RN service 2 Oct 1959 as 1st trials airframe. /759 to A2579, (wfu 1964 ?). Stored RNAS Yeovilton by Aug 1978. Arrived FAA Museum (Yeovilton) 16 Nov 1998, to the Cobham Hall site by Sep 2002.
XN332: Spent it service life with 700 Sq and 771 Sq between 1959 and 1963. It moved to RNEC Manadon (HMS Thunderer) as a ground instruction (GI) airframe, until it was sent to RNAS Yeovilton in 1971.
|  G-APNV: P.531-1 built at Eastleigh, ff 30 Sep 1958. 2nd prototype, also with 400shp Turbomeca Turmo 603 derated to 325 shp. To UK Royal Navy for trials.
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s2/5267  | | 1958 | XN333: d/d 20 Oct 1959 as 2nd trials airframe, w/o 19 Jul 1961, to G.I. Airframe A2519.
| G-APNU: P.531 O/N built at Eastleigh, ff 20 Jul 1958. 1st prototype, with 400shp Turbomeca Turmo 603 derated to 325 shp. To UK Royal Navy for trials.
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| s2/5270 | | 1958 | XN334: Delivered into RN service 6 Oct 1959 as 3rd trials airframe. To Lee-on-Solent as G.I. Airframe A2525. Stored at RNAS Yeovilton by Aug 1978. (Short spell at The Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare around 1983 ?) Arrived FAA Museum (Yeovilton) 22 Nov 1999. To its Cobham Hall storage site by Sep 2002.
| XN334: P.531 O/N built at Eastleigh, to UK Royal Navy for trials.
| 3 C/N found in this Organisation
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