This Lynx took the skies for the first time as a HAS3S on 23 Aug'88. It was delivered to the Royal Navy on 7 Sep'88. The Lynx was later modified to HAS3CTS and then to HMA8 (as pictured). Resignated after modifications to HMA8SRU. The helo was withdrawn from use on 23 Mar'17 and stored at RNAS Yeovilton. It was moved to Middle Wallop on 11 Apr'17 and cannibalized. In May'18, the Lynx was offered for Foreign Military Sales. Then it was seen stored at St.Athan in early 2019. Sales were not succesfull, so the Lynx was moved to Hayward and Green Aviation at Woodmancote for preservation by Nov'19.

Moved to Middle Wallop on 10 April 2017 for spares removal, then to St Athan for storage, and sold in 2019 to Hayward & Green Aviation, Woodmancote, West Sussex.

Used for ground instruction, then stored at St Athan and Middle Wallop. Sold in 2019 to Hayward & Green Aviation at Woodmancote, West Sussex for spares recovery.

Used for ground instruction at Yeovilton as A2653/LST2 from 14 February 2007, and later stored at St Athan.

Moved to Middle Wallop on 2 February 2015 for spares removal, sold to Everett Aero, Sproughton in October 2015, then sold in May 2017 to Bradwell Bay Military & Science Museum, Southminster, Essex.

One of two Lynx airframes 'guarding' the Wardroom and Senior Rates Mess site.

St. Albans Flight

Taking part in the Fly Navy 100. One of forty rotary and fixed wing aircraft that flew along the River Mersey marking 100 years of naval aviation.

HMS Montrose Flight's Lynx sitting on "Mother's" deck during a recent goodwill visit to the city by the Type 23 Frigate.

Black Cats display team

Built in 1981 as a Lynx HAS.2. Relegated to gate guard duties after falling from a ship. Moved to elswhere at Yeovilton in 2017.

Operated by 815 NAS HQ Flight.

One of the two 'Black Cats'.