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    Airframe Family: Saunders-Roe (Saro) P.531 / Westland Scout AH.1/Wasp HAS.1
    Latest Model:Wasp HAS.1
    Last Military Serial:XS527 RN
    Construction Number:F9543
    Last Civil Registration:G-17-3
    Compressed ID:Westland Wasp HAS.1 sn XS527 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve collection - Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wasp HAS.1 by Westland.

    To Westland Helicopters with new c/r G-17-3.

    23 March 1963

    First flight.

    15 July 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XS527.

    From 1963 to Circa 1967

    Transferred to Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down.
    Used for trials.

    1 May 1985

    Transferred to 829 Squadron HQ Flight, RNAS Portland, Dorset.

    31 July 1986

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum-Reserve collection-Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    18 July 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Show

    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: On display at Public Open Day of the Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve Collection at Cobham Hall, RNAS Yeovilton in the UK.
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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