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Lee’s data has more detail than Viscount’s above so here goes:

(c/n WA/H/21) FF 18.5.50; Delivered Gosport 13.10.50; 705 Sqn Gosport 18.10.50; WAL Ilchester 8.10.52 (Cat.4 recon & conv HR.3); WAL Yeovil 24.9.53; RDU Gosport 25.11.53; 705 Sqn Gosport (‘703/GJ’) 14.1.54; Lost control in manual, tail rotor hit the ground, Cat L 9.7.54 (L/C P Snow); Pilot cut winch wire in misunderstanding during experimental double lift, crewman & acting survivor fell 15ft into sea, Stokes Bay, Gosport, Cat SS 16.12.54 (Lt PL Hort, Lt TR Coombs OK, N/A RJA Williams injured); RNAY Donibristle 6.7.55 (recon); AHU Lee-on-Solent 25.6.56 (STS); SF Warrior 4.9.56; HHU Lee-on-Solent 21.10.56 (LTS & conv HR.5); Stn Flt/SAR Flt Brawdy (‘904/BY’) 25.2.58; Loss of engine oil pressure, autorotated safely onto playing field at Kete, Cat SS 18.10.58 (Lt AW Dobson); Tail rotor hit notice board when landing at RNAD Treown, Cat LQ 30.5.59 (Lt DK Hale & Mr D Dell, Assistant PPS to 1st Sea Lord); Tail rotor blades damaged by foreign body in flight, Cat LX 23.5.60 (Lt HF Coton & Army officer cadet passengers); RNAY Fleetlands 14.9.61 (Cat.4 repairs, NPW; to LTS 16.5.63); HHU Lee-on-Solent by road by 6.63 (LTS); To Whale Island by road 5.5.64 (gun/mortar blast trials, seriously damaged by gun blast); RNAY Fleetlands by road 12.5.64; To BRNC Dartmouth by road 19.7.64 as GI Class II; SOC 22.9.64; RNEC Manadon by road by 6.68 – 7.72; BRNC Dartmouth 1974; Cornwall Aero Park, Helston by road 28.9.81; British Rotorcraft Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, by road 14.1.88 (marked “904”); Extant in derelict state [TFH 1080.00]

That’s it. If you need help with the acronyms, shout.