Canberra TT.18 Cockpit panel Information Required

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Andy and I own her TT18 sister ship WH887 – by all means drop an email to [email]sywellaviationmuseum@gmail.com[/email] – we have photos which can help. ‘Cindy’ is pretty complete – we even managed to source the missing rear target towing panel earlier in the year!

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By their end of service I doubt there were many original B2’s left, you would have to go right back to straight off the production line standard.

I read of one joke that went round when the Tornado MRCA was announced. MRCA stood for Must Refurbish Canberra Again

Scratching of heads with our Canberra is normal, but great fun. We started off with a plan to replicate a B2 but when I searched around Google for images to copy, every time I found a new picture it was different from the last one so initially we just decided that’s what we will try to copy. TT18 inside shots are not easy to find but now with your link we have a better idea what to replicate. We are not trying to get her perfect that probably wont be do-able, we just want her to look as representative as is possible.

We have all the right ones just not in the right places…..

Reminded me so much of Eric Morecambe……..

I’m playing all the right notes, just not in the right order 🙂

Canberra’s are great, I cut my teeth on them on the road to cluttered cupboards, wish I still had some of my Canberra stuff. They can be all different and frustrating, I haven’t studied the engine panel, but difference’s between aircraft of the same mark is not unusual, depends on which airframe they selected for the various conversions. Weird shaped holes in instrument panels as well, I remember head scratching a lot.

That’s an excellent link, thank you very much, images show everything I need to allow us to get our cockpit more accurate. One interesting point is that we have got our cockpit gauges wrong, we have all the right ones just not in the right places, an easy fix for us. Our Engine panel is also different from images, I am beginning to think its the wrong one.

There is a link here to the site mentioned above with some good pictures.

http://canberratalk.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=cs&action=print&num=1257806385

In the Nav’s section the bottom two spaces on the right are for the target control boxes as in the photo with the yellow on them. When the TT18 was retired, they were mostly all removed, presumably for use on other aircraft, as were the odd cockpit instruments on Buccaneers that were used on Jaguars, that was the time of the MAS nonsense, whether that has disappeared them all I don’t know, I have seen an odd one on Ebay over time.

This is WJ721

Try here, lots of Canberra info and photos.

http://canberratalk.conforums.com/

The current state of the Navigators Station, again any help with what goes in where or even images would be of great help to us.

Hello Gateguard,

I believe that is the location for the target towing control panel. Drop me a PM with your e-mail address and I will send over some details.

Kind regards,

Tim