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    Airframe Family: Saunders-Roe (Saro) P.531 / Westland Scout AH.1/Wasp HAS.1
    Latest Model:Scout AH.1
    Last Military Serial:XP849 RAE
    Construction Number:F9475
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-HQU
    Compressed ID:Westland Scout AH.1 sn XP849 RAE cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Christopher John Marsden, Wanaka

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Scout AH.1 by Westland.

    20 July 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Army Air Corps with s/n XP849.

    1979


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: XP849 Scout AH.1 of 662 Squadron. AAC - Exercise Summer Sales 79. Still in the old colours. It went on to serve with the ETPS in their raspberry ripple colours and was Struck Off Charge from there after a hard landing. Flies on in New Zealand in private hands

    By July 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n XP849.
    Noted at IAT RAF Fairford 13 July 1985.

    By July 1985

    Transferred to EPTS, RAE Boscombe Down.

    30 July 1988


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAE Boscombe Down Air Show

    3 April 1997

    Written off.
    Aircraft damaged beyond economical repair following a heavy landing at Netheravon when the main rotor struck the tail rotor.

    From 5 August 2002 to 20 February 2004

    To Russell Edward Dagless with new c/r G-CBUH.

    20 February 2004

    To Christopher John Marsden, Little Whitemoor Farm, King Stag, Sturminster Newton keeping c/r G-CBUH.

    Based at Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Sanford, Reading, Wokingham, England.
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    18 August 2010

    Civil registration, G-CBUH, cancelled.

    17 February 2011

    To Christopher John Marsden, Wanaka with new c/r ZK-HQU (Scout AH/1, F9475).

    April 2012


    Photographer: Dave Paull
    Notes: At Wanaka, NZ
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    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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