My father is restoring the cockpit section of De Havilland Sea Venom FAW22 XG692.
This aircraft served with 891 NAS on HMS Centaur and also had a spell with 750 NAS at Lossiemouth before being struck off charge. The airframe ended up at RNAY Belfast before being rescued (http://xg692-sea-venom.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/).
Does anyone have any photos of this aircraft or know any details of its rescue from RNAY Belfast.
Cheers,
Mike
By: xg692 - 8th November 2005 at 17:08
Thanks for the comments. If the link to the website doesn’t work then please try this.
http://xg692-sea-venom.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/
Cheers,
Mike
By: Bruce - 8th November 2005 at 16:09
Coo, I wondered where that had gone.
I am embarking on the restoration of XG730 shortly, and have a similar amount of work to do!
The work you have done looks really excellent; nice to see another Sea Venom being looked after.
As far as AI21 radar is concerned, there have been a number of books on radar on Ebay lately, so keep an eye open. However, I am pretty certain that XG730 did not have it fitted in its latter years, so I will be leaving it out.
I will look and see if I have any pics of your aircraft.
Bruce
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