Del'd: 6 - 1958 to 1962

Saunders Roe Saro P.531
in
united kingdom Westland






Prototype airframes for the Army Scout and Navy Wasp development programmes and eventually delivered to these Services. One airframe for Indian evaluation eventually diverted to British Army.



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List of Aircraft


C/NModBuiltID     In this OrgIn other Org
s2/5267 w/o 1961 1958 G-APNU P.531 O/N built at Eastleigh, ff 20 Jul 1958. 1st prototype, with 400shp Turbome...
Royal Navy XN333: d/d 20 Oct 1959 as 2nd trials airframe, bird strike 11 ...
to Arbroath (A2519) by May 1962; Lee by Jan 1964; Middl...
s2/5268 1958 G-APNV P.531-1 built at Eastleigh, ff 30 Sep 1958. 2nd prototype, also with 400shp Turb...
Royal Navy XN332: dd into RN service 2 Oct 1959 as 1st trials airframe. S...
Moved to RNEC Manadon (HMS Thunderer) Plymouth as a gro...
To Yeovilton for preservation, still by Aug 1978, stil...
RNAY Wroughton for storage (by May 1990)
To Finningley for its 1991 Battle of Britain Airshow
Arrived FAA Museum (Yeovilton) 24 Sep 1991. Went elsew...
s2/5270 w/o 1962 1958 XN334 P.531 O/N built at Eastleigh, to UK Royal Navy for trials.
Royal Navy XN334: Delivered into RN service 6 Oct 1959 as 3rd trials airf...
To AIU Lee-on-Solent; to Arbroath (A2525) by Sep 1962 s...
to Crawley Technical College by Mar 1990, still Jul 199...
Elsewhere ? Returned FAA Museum (Yeovilton) 22 Nov 1...
s2/5311 1959 G-APVL P.531-2 as second tranche of prototype, with 1050shp Bristol Siddeley Nimbus eng...
British Army XP166: AAC Scout AH.1 prototype; 1960 reworked from P.531-2 to...
1968 Displayed at Farnborough Airshow
damaged hit by flying wooden debris at Farnborough Han...
Aug 1975 noted on Farnborough dump; Recovered into stor...
- G-APVL: Aug02-Aug10 2 private owners; pictured (pic1) at RNAS ...
- ZK-HJG: pictured (pic2) at Wanaka Airport on the opening airsho...
private at Wanaka, New Zealand from 17feb11; 13may11 ch...
pictured (pic3) at Wings Over Wanaka
pictured (pic4) on the flight line at the 2016 Warbirds...
s2/5312 1959 G-APVM P.531-2 built at Eastleigh as second tranche of prototype, with de Havilland Gno...
British Army XR493: Reworked from P.531-2 to pre-production version Scout A...
Stored at Fleetlands by Jul 1974
from Fleetlands to Middle Wallop by Mar 1976
to AETW Middle Wallop by Sep 1979
Royal Air Force of Oman 8040M: preserved at Royal Air Force Oman Museum at Seeb
s2/8444 1961 XR436 P.531-2 built at Hayes, for evaluation by Indian Government. ff Feb 1962. India...
British Army XR436: Reworked from P.531-2 to pre-production version Scout A...

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