Just had a look through spotters logs for the period XS176 was in service, but don’t appear to have seen this particular aircraft.

Then had a ‘Google’, and found the history already on the net!

http://www.jetprovostfile.org/t4-xs175-to-xs186/

Would appear to be a tie breaker, establishing the correct dated version of the history. Hope the work put in by Vampire Dave, myself and others have proved useful. You should be able to get an interesting history board put together out of this lot.

Nice photo in silver and dayglo patches as ’36’ of 2 FTS 6/67 on http://www.na3t.org/air/photo/MIL22252 – this confuses/adds to the information; presumably a recode during service with 2 FTS as “Sycamore” confirms the code ’28’ very soon after delivery.