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Serial #: WF219 Construction #: - Civil Registration: None |
Model(s): Sea Hawk F 1 Name: None Status: Stored Last info: 2012 |
History:
Built by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd at Bagington.
Delivered to Fleet Air Arm as WF219.
– BOC: November 25, 1953.
– SOC: N/A.
– Assigned to Receipt and Dispatch Unit (RDU), Abbotsinch, November 25, 1953.
– Transferred to RAE Farnborough for radio trials, January 18, 1954.
– Transferred to 898 NAS (TBC), September 10-October 5, 1954.
– Transferred to RNAY Fleetlands for repairs and inspection, April 06, 1955.
– Transferred to RDU Abbotsinch, December 1, 1955.
— Stored from December 5, 1955-June 12, 1956.
– Transferred to RNAS Lossiemouth ADI, August 2, 1956.
– Transferred to 738 NAS coded 635, August 4, 1956.
– Transferred back to RNAS Lossiemouth ADI, October 25, 1956.
– Transferred to RNAY Fleetlands for modifications and inspection, October 29, 1956.
– Transferred to Southern Air Division at RAF Benson coded 824November 15, 1956.
– Transferred to Aircraft Holding Unit, Stretton, February 8, 1957.
– Transferred to RNAS Lee on Solent, July 16, 1957.
– Transferred to RNAS Bramcote for General Instruction Duties, August 09, 1957.
— allocated instructional airframe number A2439.
– Transferred to RNAS Arbroath fitted with engine E4365 & coded 824, November 04, 1958.
– Downgraded to Class III, Ground Instructional Airframe, September 25, 1961.
– noted in storage with FAAM, December 1969.
Cornwall Aero Park, Helston, UK, circa June 1976-1995.
- Rear Fuselage Only.
Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Ilchester, Somerset, UK, October 23, 1995-2012.
- Rear Fuselage Only.
- Taken to FAAM storage at Wroughton.
- Moved to storage at Cobbam Hall, November 30, 1999.
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Source(s): Fleet Air Arm Museum |
Photo Source(s): Fleet Air Arm Museum Research Assistance: - |
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