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    Airframe Family: Westland Lynx
    Latest Model:Lynx 800
    Last Military Serial:ZB500 MoD
    Construction Number:102
    Last Civil Registration:G-LYNX
    Compressed ID:Westland Lynx 800 sn ZB500 MoD cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset - North, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lynx 800.
    Company demonstrator

    From 6 November 1978 to 27 February 1998

    To Westland Helicopters Ltd with new c/r G-LYNX.

    18 May 1979

    First flight.

    11 August 1986

    Converted to a Lynx 800.
    Was fitted with a WG-30 tailplane for the World Speed Record attempt but this was subsequently removed.

    August 1986

    Set the rotorcraft absolute world speed record of 400.87 km/h (249.10 mph) over the Somerset Levels - this record still stands (2014-12).

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ministry of Defence with s/n ZB500.
    Operated by Westland Helicopters Ltd, Yeovil.

    By 1989

    To Westland Helicopters Ltd, Yeovil with new c/r G-LYNX.
    Reverted to Civil ownership.

    18 January 1995

    Placed on display with The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-North, England.
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    18 July 2003


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT arrivals day

    From 13 October 2007 to July 2011

    Restored.
    Carried out by apprentices at Augusta-Westland, Yeovil. A WG-30 tailplane as used for the World Speed Record attempt has been refitted.

    5 November 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Wrecks and Relics
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Helis.com
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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