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The Pakistan Airforce were supplied with 36 ‘de-navalised’ Attackers which were retired about 50 years ago.
I’ve been trying without success to get on to the PAF Museum website to see their example and I can’t find a picture of it anywhere else.
If you look at the inventry of aircraft types and numbers that the PAF have operated over the last few decades, I can imagine that most aircraft have been accounted for, considering the number of conflicts and skirmishes that the country have been involved in over the past few decades, I would have thought that it would be important for them to do this, I may be wrong but the PAF seems to be a very proffessional outfit based on RAF principles, I doubt whether they are in the business of dragging retired aircraft to the corner of distant fields to be triumphantly re-discovered 50 years on.
Having said that, I note the contents of the ‘Vulcan Crash on Anglesey’ thread.
I go along with the thoughts of many people on this thread, there are far miore important types to be ressurected and restored, while a great aircraft, and always a favourite of mine, the Spiteful didn’t really achieve much in the scheme of things, I doubt whether 99% of the population have even heard of it, ‘Ooh, thats nice, a Spitfire with funny wings’, assuming even that was noticed.
Mother in law, bless her, recently bought me a very large book listing and illustrating every fighter ever made and flown throughout the world. Some of these are positively wierd, but going through it, you can pick out the types of importance that don’t exist any more, I don’t count the Spiteful, Aussie CA-15 or even the MB-5 in that list, fantastic though they may have been.
Lets stick to something that really achieved it’s place in history, fighter, bomber or even tug and transport.