XN304 Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 C/N wa284

Helicopter Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 Serial wa284 Register XN304 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1959. Aircraft history and location

Aircraft History

Fleet Air Arm
XN304
1959-12-11	Westland Whirlwind HAS.7, c/n WA284, ff: 11Dec59 del Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm as XN304, 24Dec59 wfu & pres Norfolk and Suffolk Air Museum, Flixton, unk.
	848 Sq/W-B by Jan 1960 705 Sq/522 by Dec 1964, 705 Sq/(5)61 by Dec 1969, 705 Sq(5)87 by Mar 1974 Wroughton by Jan 1975 705 NAS
1975-11	A Shrivenham	G I Airframe RMCS Shrivenham by Nov 1975
1978-04	B EGDT	Stored Arrived at Wroughton from Shrivenham damaged by fire, by Apr 1978 and originally intended for disposal Henlow ATC by Aug 1979 RAE Bedford during early Jul 1982.
1978-10-21	B EGDT	RN: Whirlwind HAR.9 noted in storage at RAF Wroughton , coded 64
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1982-07-19	C Flixton	Exhibit To Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum 19 Jul 1982. Displayed as 848 NAS / W, still 2015, still Mar 2018
2019-06-20	C Flixton	Exhibit at Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, under cover and marked as 848 NAS / W-B.