First Buccaneer S2 for Binbrook

Forty-one years after it was installed at RAF Honington as a gate guardian, the prototype Blackburn Buccaneer S2, XK526, has been acquired by the RAF Binbrook Heritage Centre and was due to move north to Lincolnshire at the end of September.Originally constructed at Brough as a pre-production Buccaneer S1, XK526 made its first flight on 29 August 1960, being taken on charge by the Royal Navy two months later. It then went back to the manufacturers for conversion to become