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    Airframe Family: Westland Lynx
    Latest Model:Super Lynx Mk.88A
    Last Military Serial:83+20 MFG
    Construction Number:388
    Compressed ID:Westland Super Lynx Mk.88A sn 83+20...
    Latest Owner or Location:3 Staffel, MFG-3, Norholz

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Super Lynx Mk.88A.

    1 May 1999

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ministry of Defence with s/n ZJ535.
    UK Serial used during initial testing by Westland.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Marineflieger with s/n 83+20.

    By 24 July 2003

    Transferred to 3 Staffel, MFG-3, Norholz.

    24 August 2003


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Eggebeck Air Show, Germany

    24 August 2003


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By 19 June 2013

    Markings Applied: 83+20, 100 Jahre, Marineflieger
    Special c/s to commemorate 100 years of the MFG - MFG unit badges on tail.

    19 June 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Photographed at the at Volkel Air Show in the Netherlands.

    12 July 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Airshow - note all MFG unit badges on tail

    17 July 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT

    21 July 2013


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 2013 photo at Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford UK - of a Westland Lynx Mk.88Aof the German Navy
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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