SHEARWATER AVIATION MUSEUM

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Tail Number Timeline

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401 May 24, 1963 Crashed on HMCS Iroquois flight deck 27 February 2003 Became maintenance training aid. Shearwater Aviation Museum 401
402 May 3, 1963 Lost at sea off HMCS Bonaventure 30 November 1967. CMDO Claire Tully and PO Douglas Mander. 402
403 May 3, 1963 Scrapped 403
404 July 19, 1963 Gulf Mod Rotor Maxx 404
405 May 13, 1964 Trenton 405
406 October 22, 1964 ASP Trials Scrapped 406
407 July 20, 1964 Comox 407
408 August 18, 1964 Rotor Maxx 408
409 October 22, 1964 Lost in outer Halifax Harbor 4 November 1987. Salvaged but written off due corrosion. 409
410 December 23, 1964 Rotor Maxx 410
411 January 14, 1965 Advanced Developmental Installations (MAD and Calypso) Lost at sea 19 September 1989 off HMCS Fraser in the Bermuda area. 411
412 March 18, 1965 Gulf Mod Rotor Maxx 412
413 April 21, 1965 Gulf Mod Rotor Maxx 413
414 May 21, 1965 Rotor Maxx 414
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415 July 6, 1965 Lost at sea 24 June 1969 off HMCS Saguenay near Bermuda. 415
416 August 4, 1965 RCAF Project 91 Rotor Maxx 416
417 September 9, 1965 Gulf Mod 443 Sqn, Pat Bay 417
418 November 5, 1965 Lost in outer Halifax Harbor 26 April 1973. 418
419 December 22, 1965 Rotor Maxx 419
420 January 12, 1966 Lost at sea 7 November 1971 off HMCS Nipigon. Lt Al Dick, Capt Lany Ostaficiuk and L/S Jack McCrae. 420
421 January 13, 1966 Rotor Maxx 421
422 March 9, 1966 Lost at sea 23 June 2000 off HMCS Protector. 422
423 March 3, 1966 Lost at sea 27 February 1993 off HMCS Nipigon in the Gulf Of Mexico. Salvaged but written off due salt corrosion. 423
424 March 23, 1966 Rotor Maxx 424
425 April 29, 1966 Fire in air. Saint John, NB 28 April 1994 Maj Bob Henderson and Maj Wally Sweetman. 425
426 May 27, 1966 Gulf Mod National Air & Space Museum 426
427 March 23, 1966 Ditched at sea near HMCS Bonaventure 22 February 1968 Recovered and sent to Montreal but written off. 427
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428 October 13, 1966 NDHQ Ottawa 428
429 December 13, 1966 Camp Borden Military Museum 429
430 February 21, 1967 NATO Toronto NATO Halifax Esquilmalt (Rotor Maxx) 430
431 March 23, 1967 Shearwater Aviation Museum 431
432 May 23, 1967 Tail Rotor Buzz at Shearwater 15 November 1972 432
433 August 4, 1967 Rotor Maxx 433
434 January 22, 1968 Rotor Maxx 434
435 March 20, 1968 Blades hit ramp at Shearwater 15 July 2013 Scrapped 435
436 April 11, 1968 Rotor Maxx 436
437 April 11, 1968 437
438 October 11, 1968 Lost at sea near HMCS Athabaskan off Denmark February 2006. Recovered and shipped to Halifax for disposal. Went to Wainwright, Alberta as range training aid in 2009. 438
439 October 11, 1968 Vortex Ring State at Schenectady, NY 4 August 1991. 439
440 December 5, 1968 440
441 March 27, 1969 Shearwater Aviation Park 441
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Original research based on work by Barrie MacLeod