Aside from ZA452 on display at the Midlands Air Museum, ZA469 now at Duxford. And ZA607 that arrived at Sealand during the farewell flypasts tour
And rather than trawling up the older threads
The next one for display is ZA556 which arrived at The Defence Academy of the UK at Shrivenham earlier this week
Others have of course gone for GI use last year at RAF Cosford RAF Honington Humberside airport and RAF Wittering
By: TonyT - 28th April 2019 at 13:27
They are on the training fleet, I took them on Thursday this week.
By: Binbrook 01 - 28th April 2019 at 12:50
Nice shots TonyT
Not all will be saved, but someday the Cosford jets will be available, 019 ZA447 is of course MiG Eater, So hopefully that has a spot reserved someday.
Pinkie didn’t make it, but you can buy bits of it…
By: TonyT - 28th April 2019 at 11:16
Gr4 Tornado Cosford by Tony Taylor, on Flickr
By: TonyT - 28th April 2019 at 10:40
025 Tornado Cosford by Tony Taylor, on Flickr
By: TonyT - 28th April 2019 at 10:34
XV front Tornado Cosford by Tony Taylor, on Flickr
By: TonyT - 28th April 2019 at 10:23
110 Tornado Cosford by Tony Taylor, on Flickr
By: TonyT - 28th April 2019 at 10:11
outside stored Tornado Cosford by Tony Taylor, on Flickr
054 Tornado Cosford by Tony Taylor, on Flickr
By: TonyT - 28th April 2019 at 09:59
XV Tornado Cosford by Tony Taylor, on Flickr
Tornado Cosford by Tony Taylor, on Flickr
By: WP840 - 27th April 2019 at 16:19
I’m glad they put a black radome on ‘752, Pinkie with a grey radome just looks wrong!
By: Binbrook 01 - 26th April 2019 at 22:25
Well you can forget ZG775 (the 9 Sqn special) in the first photo as that and ZD848 have gone for scrap since I last posted
By: Binbrook 01 - 6th April 2019 at 19:53
ZA475 was retired in 2001/2002 as a GR.1B and not updated to GR.4 standard as per the thread title
By: scotavia - 6th April 2019 at 16:01
By: LN Strike Eagle - 5th April 2019 at 23:09
ZG752 (camo) is supposed to be one of those destined for Honington.
Shame that nice weather did hold for the nine ship. And your knee is better.
Getting there, albeit very slowly. Thank you.
By: CADman - 5th April 2019 at 20:47
Very sad that 9 sqn at Lossimouth can not keep the complete Tornado ZG775.
After being the first operational RAF Tornado squadron with continuous service. The Squadron deserves better than just a tail to remember past endeavours. After all what use is the airframe now ?
By: Arabella-Cox - 4th April 2019 at 19:23
Honington will get 3 frames eventually
By: Binbrook 01 - 4th April 2019 at 17:31
Once the last remaining airframes have actively been sighted/confirmed at a final destination. I will update this, until then I’m not going on whatever it says anywhere else.
Nice pics LN.
Shame that nice weather didn’t hold for the nine ship. And your knee is better.
By: LN Strike Eagle - 4th April 2019 at 16:28
According to Fighter Control, the following other jets have been earmarked for preservation/GI:
ZA587 / 055
ZA613 / 075
ZD744 / 092
ZG752 / 129 (Camo retirement scheme)
ZG771 / 133 (RAF Marham Centenary tail)
The two special tails of ZG775 / 134 (IX Sqn) and ZD716 / 084 (31 Sqn) will also be saved and preserved/displayed at the new bases for those two squadrons. Apparently it is just the tails being saved though, not the whole airframes.
Here’s a few shots of the final days:
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