Built as a Heron 2 and registered as VR-NCF in 1956. Reregistered as G-ARKW then to the Royal Navy as Sea Heron C.1 XR445 in 1961. Sold as G-ORSJ in 1990. Withdrawn from use at Wycombe Air Park in 1993 and scrapped in 1996.

Three Sea Heron C1s of the Yeovilton Station Flight visited Schiphol on a cold December day. XR445 was delivered as VR-NCF on 11 January 1956, became G-ARKW on 17 March 1961 and was assigned to the Royal Navy in late 1978 and withdrawn from use on 19 December 1989. It was stored at RAF Shawbury and sold as G-ORSJ in April 1990. That registration was cancelled from the UK civil aircraft register on 23 August 1993. The Heron was dumped at Booker and the airframe was sadly scrapped in 1996.

To G-ORSJ September 9, 1990. Reduced to spares at Booker, remains to fire dump. Scrapped 1996.