Westland Sea King HAS Mk.1 "XV677"
Construction No: WA665
Build No: 38
First flight was on: 18/12/1970
Date delivered to service: 14/01/1971
Converted from HAS Mk.1 to HAS Mk.2 around June 1978
Converted from HAS Mk.2 to HAS Mk.5 around April 1985
Converted from HAS Mk.5 to HAS Mk.6 around March 1990
Served with the following units:
11/12/1972 > 28/06/1973 820 NAS
02/02/1974 > 01/11/1977 814 NAS
18/08/1978 > 04/05/1982 706 NAS coded 595
04/05/1982 > 16/09/1982 825 NAS coded 595
28/09/1982 > 08/08/1984 706 NAS
12/07/1985 > 18/05/1989 819 NAS coded 705
23/04/1990 > 05/06/1992 810 NAS coded 501
19/07/1993 > 17/03/1997 814 NAS coded 269
At all other times XV677 was either at Culdrose or Fleetlands undergoing servicing, repair or conversion.
XV677 was finally moved from the AMG at Culdrose to RNAY Fleetlands on the 20/05/1997 with 8009.50 hours on the airframe.
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