HMS Sultan 'The Elephants Graveyard'

[xkekeith]

HMS Sultan where Sea Kings go to die ..... attended the Gosport Heritage Event at HMS Sultan and managed to photograph a group of Sea Kings that had seen better days.
Will post the heritage line up and the in-use Sea Kings later:

XV706 '17' Sea King HAS.6 ex 820 Sqdn RN by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

XV706 '17' Sea King HAS.6 ex 820 Sqdn RN by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

XZ579 '707' Sea King HAS.6 ex 819 Sqdn RN by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

ZE418 '86' Sea King ASaC.7 ex 849 Sqdn RN by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

XV563 '63' Sea King HAS.6 ex 810 Sqdn RN1 by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

XV649 '80 Sea King ASaC.7 ex 857 Sqdn RN by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

XV659 '62' Sea King HAS.6 ex 810 Sqdn RN-1 by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

ZD636 Sea King ASaC.7 ex 857 Sqdn RN by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

ZD636 '82' Sea King ASaC.7 ex 857 Sqdn RN by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

XZ579, XV563, ZA128 Sea Kings ex RN by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

[Mustang531]

Many years since I visited Sultan, interesting to see these. Thanks for sharing with us.

[eLaReF]

Many years since I visited Sultan, interesting to see these. Thanks for sharing with us.

Likewise!

They were mostly indoors when I was there, still being stored/used for training
But having had a look, that was 15 years ago!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elaref/al ... 663400442/

[paddyboy]

Didn’t take long for them to ‘decompose’, did it

[Stratocruiser]

A great post.
So many times I've passed that base and seen whatever I could from the roadside wishing I could go in and explore
Thanks for sharing your wonderful captures

[warhawk121]

God that brings back some memories from when I worked the Buffers Party at Sultan nearly 10 year ago. remember seeing these being cleaned, practicing aircraft handling and the occasional ground run. and the eventual retirement of the sea king fleet. sad to see them like this.