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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-61 / H-3 / Sea King
    Latest Model:Sea King HC.4
    Last Military Serial:ZA314 RN
    Construction Number:WA0918
    Last Civil Registration:G-CMDO
    Compressed ID:Westland Sea King HC.4 sn ZA314 RN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Helicopters, Crewkerne, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea King HC.4 by Westland.

    20 September 1982

    First flight.

    2 October 1982

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n ZA314.

    By July 1987

    Transferred to 846 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton.
    Operated with markings: VN
    Noted at RAF Chivenor Air Show.

    By 24 June 1995

    Transferred to 845 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton.
    Operated with markings: E
    Noted at Woodford Air Show.

    24 June 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Woodford Airshow

    By July 2009

    Transferred to 848 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton.
    Operated with markings: WT

    10 July 2009


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    31 December 2015

    Withdrawn from use.
    At Boscombe Down.

    Assigned to Gosport for storage.

    17 June 2019

    To Andrew Douglas Whitehouse, Snowden Farm, Crewkerne, Somerset, UK with new c/r G-CMDO (WESTLAND SEA KING HC4).

    Base of operations changed to: Historic Helicopters, Crewkerne, Somerset, England.
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    3 October 2020

    First post-restoration Flight.

    5 August 2021


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Historic Helicopters Open Day, Chard, Somerset, UK

    5 August 2021


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Historic Helicopters Open Day, Chard, Somerset, UK
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Mike Lawson
    Robert Nichols
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