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    Airframe Family: Hawker Sea Hawk
    Latest Model:Sea Hawk FB.5
    Last Military Serial:WM969 RN
    Construction Number:6007
    Compressed ID:Hawker Sea Hawk FB.5 sn WM969 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Hawk FB.3.

    28 June 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WM969.

    Converted to a Sea Hawk FB.5.
    Approx 50 FB3s re-engined with the new Rolls-Royce Nene 103.
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    Transferred to 898 NAS.

    Transferred to 811 NAS.

    Transferred to 806 NAS.

    Transferred to Fleet Requirements Unit, Hurn.

    14 May 1964

    New serial number assigned: A2530 RN

    14 May 1964

    To School of Flightdeck Operations (SFDO), HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, England.
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    Markings Applied: SAH-5,
    In FRU black c/s.

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    Markings Applied: 10, Z

    27 May 2012


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford
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