December 11, 2010 at 5:53 pm
In response to a query on a different forum, I have been sent the attached images showing radio trainer Proctor IVs from an old edition of an aviation magazine (I believe it may be the “other one”). However, I know nothing of the unit or location. As far as I can see the interior shot is not same a/c as the external shot (note the different camouflage), but the cowling markings under the door look like the same. As to the serial of the exterior shot airframe, it is just decipherable as **184, which the original sender assures me was NP184 rather than the alternative option (RM184).
So: does anyone know what training (or other) unit this represents, and where the aircraft was based? A long shot, perhaps, but I hope somebody can help me find some provenance for these images.
By: Hampden Project - 12th December 2010 at 09:35
Proctor Mk IV NP294 here at East Kirkby served with no 2 radio school at Yatesbury and was coded BJ on the engine cowlings.
By: Atcham Tower - 12th December 2010 at 09:25
It is almost certainly with No 2 Radio School at Yatesbury. They had three digit codes beginning with 2, but the DM is strange.
By: eye4wings - 11th December 2010 at 18:23
Looks like this one…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._119_Squadron_RCAF