Didn’t know that about ‘506, was the airframe included with the sale to the US?

Similarly, what has happened to the Jaguar XX119 and Tornado F.3 ZE791.

I can understand displaying combat veteran airframes but would also like to see these Retirement Schemes on display as well (if they’re not already).

Yes I know that we can’t expect every airframe to be saved/displayed and are not representative of the standard finish applied for Operations but these two in particular, plus ZG506, really stand out!

XX119 went to Cosford and ZE791 went to Leeming for parts recovery.

Given that only a couple of GR9’s have made it into preservation, I’m pleased they didn’t ‘waste’ (IMO) one of those spaces with ZG506… I think that was an awful scheme to apply to a GR9. No offence meant… But it didn’t float my boat!