A little bit of XZ218's history.
It was picked up, brand new, from Fleetlands at the end of February 1980 by 662 Sqn AAC who had just finished their Lynx conversion. It was flown to Munster in Germany on the 29th, but if memory serves, it had hydraulic problems at Ostend and didn't reach Munster for a couple of days.
At the beginning of March 1981, it flew to Aldergrove and on 28th May it was used to fly Maggie Thatcher around Belfast.
It's sad to see it reduced to this sorry state.