By: Lee Howard - 11th April 2009 at 11:24
Scrapped by Hanningfield Metals, Stock, Essex, by April 1990. Here she is again on the gate at Manston, albeit now devoid of indentification.
By: STAN05 - 11th April 2009 at 09:56
Re. my original post – I’ve decided to part with these documents, so if anyone is interested then get in touch for more details.
By: pagen01 - 22nd February 2009 at 13:07
Shame the cockpit at least wasn;’t saved.
By: STAN05 - 21st February 2009 at 21:06
Thanks for the quick response. The reason I asked is because I’ve acquired some documents relating to modifications / inspections for that aircraft, although I can only see XH 764 written, no other numbers. I’ve also in posession of the original Certificate of Inspection and Acceptance – it makes interesting reading.
By: Scouse - 21st February 2009 at 21:06
This is a long way from being a good quality photograph, but here she is in about 1966, caught on long-faded Kodachrome.
By: Die_Noctuque - 21st February 2009 at 20:45
seat in existance
One of the Ejector seats said to be from this aircraft was sold recently by Chris of Jet Art fame I seem to recall.
Not sure if anything else of the aircraft survived, so it could be that all that’s left is a sole bang seat 🙁
By: Postfade - 21st February 2009 at 20:45
Have you tried just ‘Googling’ ‘Javelin XH764’?
You’ll find out that :
XH764 was Allocated maintenance number 7972M. It was displayed at RAF Manston in the markings of 87 Squadron.This Javelin was scrapped in 1990.
There’s a picture on airliners.net etc
David T
By: Short finals - 21st February 2009 at 20:42
It was scrapped in 1990, according to the usually very reliable UK Serials website:
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