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    Airframe Family: Westland Lynx
    Latest Model:Lynx AH.7
    Last Military Serial:XZ679 RM
    Construction Number:247
    Compressed ID:Westland Lynx AH.7 sn XZ679 RM cn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:Defence College of Technical Training, Lyneham, Wiltshire

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Lynx AH.1.

    14 June 1982

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Army Air Corps with s/n XZ679.

    Converted to a Lynx AH.7.

    23 May 1998


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Lynx AH.7 of 663 Squadron of the Army Air Corps on display at the 1998 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    By 23 May 1998

    Transferred to 663 SQN, Wattisham.
    Noted at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 98.

    By 2008

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Marines with s/n XZ679.

    By 4 July 2008

    Transferred to 847 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    4 July 2008


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Show

    4 July 2008


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    3 September 2015

    To Defence College of Technical Training, Lyneham, Wiltshire.
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     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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