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  • Saunders Roe Saro P.531
    in
    united kingdom Fleet Air Arm







    Del'd: 3 - 1959 to 1964






    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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    Units


    YearsUnitsbold : Current base of the Unit
    1961/64771 NAS Portland Heliport
    1959/61700 NASRNAS Culdrose
    RNAS Yeovilton



    Platform


    Classes
    FF Type 15 class



    List of Aircraft

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    C/NModBuiltID     In this OrgIn other Org

    s2/5268 1958     XN332: dd into RN service 2 Oct 1959 as 1st trials airframe. Spent +
    Westland G-APNV: P.531-1 built at Eastleigh, ff 30 Sep 1958. 2nd prototy+
    s2/5267 1958     XN333: d/d 20 Oct 1959 as 2nd trials airframe, bird strike 11 Nov 1+
    Westland G-APNU: P.531 O/N built at Eastleigh, ff 20 Jul 1958. 1st proto+
    s2/5270 1958     XN334: Delivered into RN service 6 Oct 1959 as 3rd trials airframe,+
    Westland XN334: P.531 O/N built at Eastleigh, to UK Royal Navy for tria+