Mk.100 IN172 at Cochin, September 2001; Kapil Chandni/Warbirds of India	Mk.100 IN174 at Trivandrum, 2003; Sandeep Unnithan/Warbirds of India

Displayed on a concrete block out of reach of vandals, IN172 looks faded and has a gutted cockpit but is otherwise in fairly good condition. Wearing an inaccurate colour scheme and amusingly-positioned drop tanks (good luck getting the undercarriage down!) and rockets, she is to be found at Pallady, on the road to Salem. Information current as of 09/2001.

Supported by two large concrete blocks, IN174 looks at first sight to be in excellent condition bar a clouded canopy and has obviously had a recent repaint. However closer inspection shows the windscreen quarter panel on the starboard side is smashed and the wings are bending down, with supports to keep them from snapping off entirely. Not bad going for more than 20 years of exterior display though... Information current as of 2003.

Mk.100 IN188 at at rest on the INS Vikrant, December 2001; Saurabh Lele/Warbirds of India	Mk.100 IN235 at Chennai; Vijay Simha Reddy/Warbirds of India

A second Sea Hawk has joined IN246 onboard the INS Vikrant, now a floating museum. IN188 has been restored and is to be found on the hangar deck as part of a diorama. Information current as of 12/2001.

IN235 is one of two Sea Hawk airframes donated by the Indian Navy in the 1980s to the Indian Institute of Technology at Adyar. She appears to be fairly sound bar faded paintwork and a little rust here and there. She is kept indoors with wings folded to save space. IN235 no longer appears to be in active use as an instructional airframe and her cockpit is missing many instruments, mostly removed for instructional purposes.

Mk.101 6686 at Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany; Paul Nann	Mk.101 6707 at Eggebek, 1997; Holger Bernau

In Germany several Sea Hawks can be found, the one on here being a tall-tailed Mk.101 variant at the Internationals Luftfahrtmuseum Manfried Pflumm (bit of a mouthful eh!) at Villingen-Schwenningen. From the appearance of the paintwork, this example was repainted in the last decade or so but is now needing another repaint, and the canopy perspex needs to be replaced. Unusually, it's displayed with weapons - rockets under the wings.

Displayed in German Navy markings as RB-363 (an MFG 2 machine), 6707 is to be found on a plinth at Eggebek air base in Germany.

Mk.101 IN240 at Vizag; Warbirds of India	Mk.101 IN244 at Marmagoa, India, January 1994; John Tolland

Rumoured to have been the final flying example of the Sea Hawk in Indian service, IN240 certainly won't be doing any real flying in the future, as she's now one of the major exhibits in the Victory at Sea exhibition in Vishakapatnam. Resting on a concrete cradle this has to be the most dramatically posed Sea Hawk in the country. Information current as of 01/01/2004.

India operated Sea Hawks for many years and only retired them in the 1980s. The Sea Hawk's replacement in Indian Navy service was another Hawker design - the Sea Harrier - but even after they had been delivered the Sea Hawks were kept in service for a few years! The example here is IN244, preserved on the gate of Dabolim NAS, Marmagoa.

Mk.101 IN246 at rest on the INS Vikrant, December 2001; Sandeep Unnithan/Warbirds of India	Mk.101 IN252 at Chennai; B Harry/Warbirds of India

This is IN246, pictured on deck onboard the INS Vikrant. Retired in recent years, the Vikrant had been slowly rusting away but a campaign to save her and turn her into a floating museum has been successful and she was recently opened as a tourist attraction with a restored IN246 taking pride of place on the flight deck. Information current as of 12/2001.

Previously in use as an instructional aid at the Madras Institute of Technology, IN252 now appears to have been pretty much dumped outside. The cockpit is a bit of a disaster area (though still retains the joystick and a few instruments) and one wingtip is missing; the undercarriage is sinking into the ground. Information current as of 03/03/2002.