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    Airframe Family: Hawker Sea Hawk
    Latest Model:Sea Hawk FGA.6
    Last Military Serial:WV856 RN
    Construction Number:AW.6101
    Compressed ID:Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 sn WV856 RN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Hawk FGA.6.

    15 December 1954

    Transferred to RNAY Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.
    Delivered to this unit.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WV856.

    12 April 1955

    Transferred to 806 SQN, Hal Far, Malta.
    Operated with markings: C/166
    Embarked HMS Centaur (R06).

    31 July 1956

    Transferred to 898 SQN Brawdy, Dyfed, Wales.
    Operated with markings: O/475

    21 April 1958

    To 806 SQN, Losiemouth.
    Markings added: E/182

    17 May 1960

    Transferred to 801 SQN, Brawdy, Dyfed, Waled.
    Operated with markings: 121

    9 January 1962

    Transferred to 781 SQN, Lee-On-Solent, Hampshire, England.

    3 February 1967

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    9 October 1967

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Navy.

    Markings Applied: 163

    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton in the UK

    28 September 2018


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: In the Fleet Air Arm Museum, RN Station Yeovilton.

    13 July 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Airshow, a brief trip outside.
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