• Aircraft:

  Westland Sea King Mk.50a

• Reg: N16-238 photos
• Serial #:

  WA-929

• Airline: Australia - Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
• Photo Date: Mar 17, 1986
• Uploaded: Jul 24, 2021
• Canberra - YSCB, Australia

Close-cropped head-on underside view of RAN Westland Sea King Mk 50a N16-238 (WA929) Code 920 operated by 817 Sqn during a handling demonstration at the Phillips Sky Fest at Canberra Airport on 17Mar1986. This aircraft was acquired in 1983 as a replacement for five Sea Kings lost at sea in Ditchings between 1975 and 1979! (Codes 01, 03, 04, 06 and 08). I flew from Nowra to Canberra in Sea King N16-100 on 14July1977. As 'Shark 02', that aircraft crashed at Nias Island Indonesia on 02Apr2005.

Photographer

Aircraft

One of six Sea Kings currently stored on site

n94504 N16-238

3,254 0 0 Westland Sea King Mk.50a

David Knudsen N16-238

2,554 0 0 Westland Sea King Mk.50a

Call sign (9)20

David Sommerville N16-238

3,396 0 0 Westland Sea King Mk.50a

Photo location

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Photographer

Front Stbd view of seven UK Air Force (Royal Air Force) British Aerospace Hawk T1A aircraft (including XX264 Cn 100-312100, in RAF ‘Red Arrows’ livery) each trailing tainted White smoke (in an Inverted V - ‘Gable’ formation) against a Bronze coloured sky – at Farnborough EGLF on 09Sep1992

Wal Nelowkin XX264

173 4 0 British Aerospace Hawk T.1A

Rare rear Stbd Color view of In-Service USAF North American F-86F-30-NA Sabre 52-4536 (Cn 191-232) Code FU536 (with droptanks) parked at Pyongtaek (now RKSG) South Korea in 1954

Wal Nelowkin 52-4536

800 11 1 North American F-86F Sabre

Close-cropped Stbd view of RAAF CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk30 A94-922 Cn CA27-22 being used as a Training Aid at RAAF Base Amberley on 14Nov1984

Wal Nelowkin A94-922

229 0 0 CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk.30