🙂 Thank you all. We are doing our best with this website. Feels good to see that so many people enjoy it. There is a lot more to come in the future. If anybody here has something to contribute (photos, infos or anything else about RAF Gütersloh) feel free to contact us via the contact form on http://www.sg-etuo.de.

Can’t contribute unfortunately, but do you have anymore pics of Harrier XZ993 (besides the great one on your site) or any of the arctic painted Harriers at all?

There are two Harrier T4 of 4Sqn in arctic scheme on our site: XZ146 and ZB600. There is also an unidentified Harrier GR3 of 4Sqn in arctic scheme and a picture of XV808/W of 3Sqn will be published within the next few days.

@Fouga23:
I just looked through the next 50 pictures waiting to be published. There is no Magister amongst those. But as the Fougas were regular visitors in Gutersloh I bet there are more to come.

@battle_damaged
Sounds great! We do not have too many german Magisters yet.

That’s right. I’ve known about them for 20 years, but never seen a photograph of the 3 Sqn Harriers (Quite a few of the Tornados, and of course 4 Sqn ‘adopted’ their marking

I cannot remember how long “our” Harriers flew with these coloured tails but as there are no pictures made by our photographers with access to the base I think they did not fly for very long. I re-uploaded pictures of XV738/B in grey and XV758/V with a red tail to our site. If you click on the pictures they open in bigger size.

As far as I remember there were two 3Sqn GR3s with white tails and two with red/orange tails. This was a test by RAFG (some Tornados got the same coloured tails) to make aircraft more visible during low level flying after some months earlier in 1989 a RAF Tornado from Bruggen collided with two GAF Alphajets near Wittmund.

I have to correct myself: The four Harriers of 3Sqn received their coloured tails (2 x white, 2 x red) on or around January 23rd, 1989 – only ten days after the mentioned collision of a RAFG Tornado and GAF Alphajets. XZ995/J was last seen with a white tail on March 14th 1989, XV760/K was last seen with a white tail at the end of June 1989, XV758/V was last seen with a red tail at the end of July 1989 and XW630/T already lost its red paint until April 19th.

@DaveF68
Thank you for pointing us to that Harrier T4 with unfinished 3 Squadron markings in fact might have been already wearing the markings of Gutersloh Station Flight.

One year later we now have more than 3000 Gütersloh related photos and a lot of videos on our site http://sg-etuo.de