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Registration: ZF115

Construction Number: WA/960

Military Unit: A&AEE

Model Westland Sea King HC.4

Operator: Royal Air Force

Airport: In Flight, International Airspace

Photographer: Kev Slade

Date Taken: 25/04/1988

Date Submitted: 21/02/2009

Approaching RFA Fort Austin in Plymouth Sound. The aircraft was badly damaged in an accident at Boscombe Down in November 2001 while trying to replicate the the conditions leading to the crash of Sea King HAR.3 XZ599. Subsequently stored, it returned to Royal Navy service as an HC.4 in April 2009 following an extensive two year rebuild by Vector Aerospace at Fleetlands.

Picture ID:1159701

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