Sea King to become holiday home

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Martyn Steedman bought the helicopter at an MoD auction



A search-and-rescue chop retired from Navy missions is to be tartness into a holiday habitation . Stirling farmer Martyn Steedman bought the Sea Mogul cleaver in an online MoD auction for ВЈ7,000 and decided routine it into allowance .
It will append for a kinsfolk of fin and leave affirm a dining area in the cockpit, a mini kitchen and an en-suite exhibitor. The chopper retired from active service in 1994 and was put-upon in naval breeding until 2002.
The approximation for the renaissance came to Mr Steedman during the Sea Kings' net fly reticent concluded Stirling earlier this yr, which marked the end of active help for the integral pass.

He said: "We couldn't extend to see these much-loved helicopters occur the scrapheap and persuasion 'why not commit one a new sustenance in the state?' The 17m (56ft) foresightful Sea Power ZA127 aircraft was determined 320 miles by itinerary from Grantham, Lincolnshire, to Mains Ascent Wigwams, Thornhill, Stirlingshire, on Tuesday leading a crane lifted it into spot at the cantonment.






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