When VZ345 was donated to the RNHF in 1992, it was their intention to restore it to fly again.
However I’m told that a survey of the airframe revealed some non-standard fuselage repairs. As a result of these repairs, the fuselage was no longer geometrically true.
To make it airworthy it would have to been rebuilt completely, from scratch.

D-CIBO was donated to the RNHF at the same time as WG655 in 1976, as a source of spares.

Yes, that is WV911 outside, one of the RNHF’s other Sea Hawks.
I was once told that it would be an ideal restoration project but as all the paperwork had gone walkies it could not happen.

I hope that VR930 makes it into the sky this year, but I should think it will be on static display at Yeovilton Air Day if not.

I suspect the only way a Museum could get one, in the forseeable future, is to buy a basic wreck/carcass and rebuild it over time. The FAAM at Yeovilton once suggested that this method may be the only way that they get a Sea King.

The Omaka aircraft is WV666. It had an accident in the UK a few years before export.
Ended up going through a hedge and coming to rest next to a pub.

Cracking planning 🙂 😉

Never been, though I do intend to make the trip at some stage, probably when I am old and grey, around 23 or 24 years of age.

There’s a few of the beasts based near Reading with Alan House.
I think he has the original Shuttleworth Collection aircraft as well.

Then of course Kennet Aviation at North Weald have ‘MOOS’ 🙂