Here’s a group of pictures that come with very little detailed information.
I would be very grateful for further details of units, dates or locations.
Photos as usual by the late Gerald Lawrance, digitised and made available by Tony Clarke.
PK411 ‘XT-O’ Spitfire F.22. Ex 603 Sq, probably with Airwork at Gatwick (NB Hornet in background):
PK433 ‘Q’ Spitfire F.22, Ex 603 Sq, probably Airwork at Gatwick:
A group of four at the same airshow (where and when?)
VN328 Spitfire F.24:
TH988 Mosquito B.35:
MF628 Wellington (now with RAF Museum):
WH657 Canberra B.2 (now preserved Brenzett):
XA903 Vulcan B.1, at Cambridge, probably for changeover from Olympus to RB199 trials:
XR364 Short Belfast C.1:
XR801 Vickers Viscount 744, ETPS , probably at Farnborough:
XR802 Vickers Viscount 745D, ETPS, also probably at Farnborough:
XK986 Whirlwind HAR.2 (?):
XK990 Whirlwind HAR.10:
XM105 Blackburn Beverley C.1:
VS681 Prentice T.1 (To G-AONU 1956, but not converted):
MV548 Mosquito NF.30 (To French AF):
RF332 Avro Lincoln, at Blackbushe 1957-1958 when with Eagle Aviation (airline badge on nose):
RF342 Avro Lincoln B.2 (Ex and to G-APRJ, remains now in Australia) Probably at Cranfield:
RF370 ‘LS’ Avro Lincoln:
RF389 Avro Lincoln:
RF461 Avro Lincoln, RAF Signals Command titles:
By: abadonna - 28th April 2011 at 13:58
WJ771 and WH977
WH977, possibly circa April/May 62, post conversion to B.15
WJ771, possibly late Jan/Feb 61 on delivery to Marshalls for B.16 conversion
By: Wyvernfan - 28th April 2011 at 08:35
Meteor T7 WH224 and Chipmunk T10 WK616 look to me to be at Duxford.
Great shots as usual :).
By: John Aeroclub - 27th April 2011 at 21:37
The Airshow pictures could be Wattisham with the resident Javelins. The 12 Sqn B.6 brought back memories. These a/c were ferried down to Cambridge to be converted to B.16s (so in that picture it’s still a B.6), when the Canberras were replaced with Vulcans and I got in some nice jollies in the Anson TX176 on the way to collect the crews back to Coningsby. WH977 is an ex 9 Sqn B.6
John
By: pagen01 - 27th April 2011 at 21:33
Excellent pictures again David.
The Herc looks great in that delivery scheme, you can really relate it to the Daks and Yorks before it.
By: DCW - 27th April 2011 at 21:28
Another batch of RAF odds and ends, as usual any help with units, dates, locations very welcome. Photos all via Tony Clarke.
XA636 Javelin FAW.4, 41 Sq RAF (Wfu by 1963):
WP104 Hunter F.5, ‘A’ 56 Sq RAF (Wfu by 1959):
WH450 Meteor F.8 (Wfu by 1963):
WK887 Meteor F.8 ‘JH’ (Wfu by 1972):
WH224 Meteor T.7 (Wfu by 1966):
WH977 Canberra B.15 (Wfu by 1974), landing Cambridge:
WJ771 Canberra B.16, 12 Sq RAF (W/O 16-7-64) At Cambridge:
XD860 Valiant BK1 (?):
XD616 Vampire T.11 (Pod in store for Jet Age Museum):
WR971 Shackleton MR.3, ‘P’ 201 Sq, RAF (Parts survive at Flixton):
TX170 Anson C.19 (unusual colour scheme):
VV260 Anson T.21 (Wfu by 1958):
WB624 Chipmunk T.10 (Now preserved at Newark):
WK616 Chipmunk T.10 (To N48260):
WJ492 Valetta C.1 (Scrapped Kirkbride 1959):
XV178 Hercules C.1 Delivery at Cambridge 1967:
And finally, three Dakota IV,
KN371 (later G-AMPS, last known stored Harare ex Zimbabwe Air Force):
KN520:
KN640:
By: barry flahey - 9th April 2011 at 18:44
hi David,
First two photos were most certainly Gatwick. The year was likely 1953. They were refurbished by Airwork General Trading and sold abroad to Syria and Rhodesia. Airwork refurbished over 100 spitfires during the early 50’s. I have a complete list of serials someplace written down during my working days with Airwork.
There is an excellent post by antoni on this site dated August 16th, 2008 under the title Syrian Spitfire Mk 22 photo’s (old thread) which gives more info.
These pics certainly brought back memories,,,many thanks for posting!
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