Aircraft History |
XN334 | |||
Westland | |||
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P.531 O/N built at Eastleigh, to UK Royal Navy for trials. | |||
Fleet Air Arm | |||
1962-03-04 | A c 7nm SW Portland Bill | SW of Portland Bill Delivered into RN service 6 Oct 1959 as 3rd trials airframe, aboard HMS Undaunted. 700Sq by May 1960, 771Sq/758 by Aug 1961. Ditched off Portland 4 Mar 1962 while operating from HMS Ashanti, wreck recovered. | |
To AIU Lee-on-Solent to Arbroath (A2525) by Sep 1962 still Jul 1968 Stored at RNAS Yeovilton by Aug 1978. (Short spell at The Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare around 1983 ?) | |||
1990-03 | B Crawley College | G I Airframe to Crawley Technical College by Mar 1990, still Jul 1993. Returned to FAA Museum 8 Aug 1996 | |
Elsewhere ? Returned FAA Museum (Yeovilton) 22 Nov 1999. To its Cobham Hall storage site by Sep 2002. |
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