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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-61 / H-3 / Sea King
    Latest Model:Sea King HAS.5
    Last Military Serial:XZ578 RAF
    Construction Number:WA0846
    Compressed ID:Westland Sea King HAS.5 sn XZ578 RA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Private Collection, Myjava, Myjava

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea King HAS.2 by Westland.

    1 December 1976

    First flight.

    18 January 1977

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XZ578.
    The delivery date is provided.

    By June 1977

    Transferred to 824 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset.

    Converted to a Sea King HAS.5 by Westland.

    By January 1987

    Transferred to 810 Squadron, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall.
    Operated with markings: 501

    By January 1995

    Transferred to 706 Squadron, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall.
    Operated with markings: 581

    To Caernarfon Airworld Aviation Museum, Caernarfon Airport, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales.
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    2 March 2005


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Sea King HU.5SAR, callsign Navy 178, of 771 Squadron at Prestwick as seen at Carlisle Airport in March 2005.

    2 March 2005


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Sea King HU.5SAR, callsign Navy 178, of 771 Squadron at Prestwick as seen at Carlisle Airport in March 2005.

    16 May 2010


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: At Prestwick, Scotland

    22 January 2015


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Sea King HU.5SAR of 771 Squadron based at Prestwick visited the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle in January 2015.


    Photographer: southwestpix
    Notes: On exercise at Silloth on Solway with Silloth RNLI

    October 2019

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Private Collection, Myjava, Myjava.
    Moved by road from Caernarfon to a private British owner in Myjava, Slovakia.
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    1 October 2020


    Photographer: mike zavilla-davies
    Notes: XZ578 alongside XZ598 both being restored in Slovakia

    1 October 2020


    Photographer: mike zavilla-davies
    Notes: various restoration pictures

    1 October 2020


    Photographer: mike zavilla-davies
    Notes: fuselage buffing

    1 October 2020


    Photographer: mike zavilla-davies
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    Peter Nicholson
    mike zavilla-davies
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