What's this WFU A/C at the closed Nicosia airport?

Goodness me. How long has she been there?

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=52774&highlight=shackleton+nicosia, a long time!:D

OK, thanks a lot for the quick answers 😎

Tillerman

Thanks guys. Well what a survivor!

XF700 History
* First flown 9.7.58 and A/Cn 11.8.58. Delivered to 23MU 18.8.58 and issued to 120 Sqn 9.58 coded A. To 49MU 4.60 for Phase I mods and repair by Avro CWP, completed 4.61. Retumed to 120 Sqn as A. To Avro 10.61 for Phase II update, returning to 120 Sqn 7.62 still as A. Allocated to HSA Langar 8.63 for Phase Ill modernization, completed 3.65, when delivered to 206 Sqn and coded U. Transferred to 201 Sqn as M 5.66 and allotted to HSA Woodford for Viper installation 12.66. On completion 4.67 XF700 returned to the Kinloss Wing, retaining the M code and apart from mods at HSA Bitteswell 5.68 – 6.68, the aircraft remained on Kinloss charge until 1.69, when transferred to 203 Sqn and coded F. Despatched to Nicosia, Cyprus, 26.10.71 for fire-fighting training and SoC Cat.5(Scrap) on arrival. Scrapped 1.72 after spares recovery by 103MU.

The Shackleton’s been there since 1971. It was already on the fire dump well before the conflict.

I think the Turkish intervention was in 1974. The aircraft you see were caught in the crossfire of a battle between Greek Cypriot forces and the Turkish army.
The airfield was and is still probably a UN no go zone and cannot be visited by anyone outside the UN.

Goodness me. How long has she been there?

It is a very poorly Shackleton… strange isn’t it how circumstance has caused it to linger far longer than some of the others?

It’s a bit of a local landmark now with some of the UN forces. I hope to have some more up to date pictures of it before long, as some friends are due to be in the area soon.

Shackleton

http://www.demobbed.org.uk/images/xf700.jpg

WFU aircraft at Nicosia

It is a shackleton MR3 XF 700

http://www.demobbed.org.uk/image_display.php?otype=982&types=982&aircraft=17100

There is a Trident to the north/east of this and if you look to the east of the tower you can see a big blemish on the pan, which i believe is where another trident was destroyed.

come down to the southeast and you will find lakatamia, a cypriot national guard airfield.

hope this helps

That looks like a Shackleton to me?