YEOVILTON LIFE: Farewell to the Sea King tour

YEOVILTON LIFE: Farewell to the Sea King tour

FIVE Sea King helicopters have set off this morning (Monday, March 21, 2016) from RNAS Yeovilton on the start of a special farewell formation.

The Mk4 troop carrying green Sea King helicopters, which have carried Royal Marines into acton for more than 36 years, will stage a five-hour “goodbye flight” around locations most associated with them.

The Junglies – a nickname they owe to their service in Borneo in the 1960s – were scheduled to leave RNAS Yeovilton this morning at 8.30am.

They will then fly over southern England – passing over Joint Helicopter Command Headquarters, RAF Benson, Portsmouth, RM Poole, Portland, Lympstone, Dartmouth, Plymouth, Bickley Barracks, Bideford, Chivenor, Norton Manor Camp at Taunton, Abbeywood in Bristol, and Glastonbury Tor before arriving back at RNAS Yeovilton at around 2.30pm.

They should be going over Taunton and then up through Sedgemoor at around lunchtime before heading back to South Somerset and RNAS Yeovilton at about 2.30pm.

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