sorry viscount you lost me a bit – the airframe is marked up externally as XR991 and has been for some time as far as i understood, certainly backed up by all the photo’s I have seen.

The CAA website looks to have slipped up with the ‘992 allocation unless I mave missed the boat completely – if so I apologise for sticking my nose in!

Perhaps if you requested information about their aircraft XR992/G-MOUR they would be more likely to answer your request??

Knowing the speed of response on this forum a little surprised that no one has pointed out the slip in the title line.

I don’t think a request on XR992 would elicit much response, it was written off in 1969 at RAF Kemble!

A bit of proof reading can benefit us all sometimes…

LOX (Liquid Oxygen) tank removal?

I seem to recall from RAF rigger training LOX tanks tended to be spherical..would make sense to want to get them away from a stricken aircraft in a hurry.

Just a thought..

Sorry, but in this day and age no way is a Canberra ‘complex’. Probably a cover up for ‘not being able to understand aircraft design and engineering pre-computer days’.

I served on Canberras in the ’60s. . It was / is not ‘complex’ or ‘complicated’ in any way (complicated = unable to understand).

An awful lot changed since the 60’s!

The final PR9 was a reasonably complex state of affairs, what with powered flying controls, mutiple hydraulic circuits, autostab, modernised avionic systems to name but a few. Having served and worked on much of the range of Canberra Mks from basic TT18 through dual control T4, slghtly more complicated PR7 then PR9 in the early 2000’s I can with some confidence say that the 9 was complex enough to warrant it’s “semi-compex” status as defined by the CAA.

that new disruptive camouflage scheme the RAF were trialling really did the trick..

What’s saddest about this is that Mr Revill, the owner of the farm and airframes has always welcomed people to view the airframes with the express wish that photographs are for personal use and not to be used on public fora such as this.

Any talk of “expose’s” and tosh is just going preclude locals like myself with no desire to make a song and dance of the collection from enjoying vists to the farm, so could we just leave it there please?

Wouldn’t cars/trucks be cheaper/cleaner/less noisey?

I guess unless you’ve done it as a fresh 17 year old trainee, it’s difficult to perceive the overwhelming sensation of excitement/terror as a screaming jet aircraft (okay a small JP scream but it’s all about the effect) lurches toward you for the very first time on Line Training Flight. It’s not all about the technical ability to marshall, it’s about learing to cope with something very dangerous and noisey poitning right at you, under your control by proxy. A car would just not have the desired effect.

I went from JP’s in training straight to Canberra’s on Sqn and I can assure you without having had that experience with the relatively “safe” JP I would’ve gone to pieces in moments as a PR9 with two Avon 206’s (near enough Lightning engines without afterburners) came hurtling toward me on the big lonely line for the first time.

Sorry for slight topic drift..to bring back on topic, I learned to be a rigger on many of those very Jags! 😎