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    Airframe Family: Hawker Sea Hawk
    Latest Model:Sea Hawk FGA.6
    Last Military Serial:WV903 RN
    Construction Number:6118
    Compressed ID:Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 sn WV903 RN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Aeroplane Collection, Hooton, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1954

    Constructed as a Sea Hawk FGA.4.
    By Armstron-Whitworth

    18 January 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WV903.

    Transferred to 804NAS.

    Transferred to 811NAS.

    Transferred to 897NAS.

    Transferred to 802NAS.

    Circa 1956

    Converted to a Sea Hawk FGA.6.

    April 1957

    Transferred to 801nas.

    1961

    Withdrawn from front-line service.

    20 January 1971

    New serial number assigned: 8153M RAF

    20 January 1971

    Transferred to 1SoTT, RAF Halton.

    17 December 1974

    New serial number assigned: A2632 RN

    17 December 1974

    To School of Flightdeck Operations (SFDO), HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, England.
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    By 22 July 1981

    Markings Applied: 128, C

    22 July 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Show

    10 May 1985

    Assigned to RNAS Lee-On-Solent for storage.

    1995

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
    Open storage.
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    2007

    To Bill Turnbull.

    2007

    Cockpit at Mold, Flintshire. Fuselage stored at Hooton Park Cheshire.

    5 December 2010


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2010 photo at Hooton Park, Cheshire, UK

    28 December 2012

    To The Aeroplane Collection, Hooton, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester, England.
    Cockpit only.
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    Fuselage to Jet Art, Selby for spares recovery.
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     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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