I was offered the mission board in the nineties for nothing as long as any damage was put right. At the time I was a volunteer at an East Anglian museum so I passed the offer on to them, they spent alot of time saying they would like it but never actually got around to actioning anything in the end it went to an American collector for a museum in the states.

Ok, anybody want to help fill in the gaps with the fate’s and current locations of the missing Swiss Vampire T55’s? Here’s my starter list :

U1207 – Crashed 09/09/71 – Volketswil
U1208 – ( HB-RVF as U1208 ) – Fliegermuseum, Altenrhein
U1209 – Crashed 22/09/71 – Eigergletscher
U1211 – Clin d’Ailes Museum, Payerne ( static )
U1213 – ( NX935HW ) – Privately owned, USA
U1214 – ( G-DHVV as XE897 ) – Source Classic Jet Flight, Hurn – For Sale
U1215 – ( G-HELV as XJ771 ) – Air Atlantique Historic Flight, Coventry
U1216 – ( 209 ) – Royal Jordanian Historic Flight
U1219 – ( G-DHWW as XG775 ) – Source Classic Jet Flight, Hurn – For Sale
U1221 – ( SE-DXV as 105 ) – Aeronautical Society of Ljungbyhed
U1222 – ( N23105 as WB188 ) – Ten Air, Anoka County
U1225 – ( ZK-RVM as NZ5712 ) – Brett Emeny, New Plymouth ( NZ )
U1226 – ( N——- ) – Privately owned, USA
U1228 – ( HB-RVJ as U1228 ) – Privately owned, Switzerland – For Sale
U1229 – ( F-AZGU as U1229 ) – Privately owned, France
U1230 – ( G-DHZZ as WZ589 ) – Source Classic Jet Flight, Hurn – For Sale
U1234 – Crashed Biggin Hill.

U1201 / 31 / 2 were retired early by the Swiss so I doubt these still fly but are they static somewhere, what happened to the others?

Damn, Steve beat me to it – doh!

Hello Firebird,

I know there was talk of the OFMC putting there F4 in the air but I think thats all it was. The fact that they got the aircraft in the first place when scrappies were being ordered to reposses cockpit sections they had sold as viloating the SALT treaty might suggest that you would wont to keep quiet about it! I doubt the facillities at Duxford would have been upto scratch for the operation of such a beast.

I’m with you on the Lightning info. 🙂

Know that would be a sight 😀

The SA CAA permit alow’s them to operate in South Africa only and only over non populated area’s. I think the LPG guys are just clutching at straws, having had the chance this year to talk to a couple of the guys who sit on the board that make the decisions about what can fly in this country I would say the chances are pretty much zero – unfortunatly.