The Hawker Seahawk was used by the Indian Navy in large numbers, aircraft were obtained from the UK and West-Germany. One of many survivors in India is preserved in the superb Indian Naval Aviation Museum in Dabolim, Goa. This is a former West-German aircraft, previously serialled VA-233.

Sea Hawk on display at Naval Air Museum Goa. This is one of 74 Sea Hawks that was operated by INAS 300, IN's first carrier-based fighter squadron commissioned on 7 July 1960 by Smt. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit. Embarked for the first time on INS Vikrant in 1961, Sea Hawks stayed on till 1978. During the 1971 Indo-Pak War, "White Tigers" wreaked havoc on Pakistani installations at Cox's Bazaar and Chittagong.