More Belfast, Britannia and Belvedere aircraft than first throught?

I think the site aims to list aircraft that have formerly served with the U.K
armed forces – hence the Malaysian Twin Pioneers wouldn’t feature as I believe they were sold direct from Scottish Aviation.
With any site that aims to list wrecks and display airframes there will always be problems – of course it makes it perfectly clear on the site that they will always accept amendments which is what makes it vibrant.

A very good effort which provokes people like me to continue serching!

There has to be a very large question mark over some of the information recorded on this site.

For instance, here in Malaysia it makes no mention of the 2 Twinpins that are on display, 1 in the RMAF Museum in KL and the other in Taman Merdeka, Malacca.

The Brigand, RH755, that it mentions as being in private hands here is, in fact, lying on a jungle hillside where it crashed on 3 May 1952. Here’s a press report of that from some 6 years ago.

http://www.malaysian-museums.org/rmaf/

When the page opens, click on “Wreckage”. When that page opens, click on “Wreckage at Lenggong, Perak”.

Some items of wreckage were recovered to the RMAF Museum but most of what was left still rests where it fell.

As for Singapore, the site shows 6 surviving Javelins!!! A very nice thought but not really credible. Six were handed over to the fledgling Singapore Air Force for GI use in mid-1968 when withdrawn from RAF service. These were scrapped many years ago.

Only one former RAF Britannia survives, our lovely XM496 at Kemble!

CU-T121 and 9Q-CHY were scrapped many years ago and as far as I’m aware, nothing of these aircraft survives. As to the Belfast, there are just 3 examples left as G-BFYU was indeed scrapped in 2001.

XR367 was registered G-BFYU, after looking on airliners.net for BFYU, there are images of it in a very derelict state. One photo caption suggests it was scrapped during 2001. I also seem to remember it being next to XR363 which was also scrapped around the same time.

I was always led to believe that there was only one surviving RAF Britannia and three surviving Short Belfast aircraft, but after scanning the brilliant website: http://www.demobbed.org.uk, it appears there are in fact three surviving Britannia aircraft (check out: http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=270) and four Belfast (checkout: http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=219).

Apparently there is even an additional Bristol Belvedere in Singapore (check out: http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=227).

Does anyone know about these additional airframes?

There is only one surviving ex RAF Britannia. As far as I know CU-T121 and 9Q-CHY were scrapped some time ago, although some sections may survive. Belvedere XG448 was an instructional airframe at Changi up to the 1960’s, but I thought it had been scrapped soon after. It was certainly stripped for parts, now used in the Belvedere restoration at Weston-super-Mare. If its preserved at Changi as the website says then I wouldn’t mind seeing a photo.

That is a great site thanks Phillip, plus we may have some hope for some future saves, but i always seem to treat anything listed as stored somewhere in south america as scrap unless it is in a museum.

curlyboy