IMO what makes the scheme will be the 899 NAS insignia on the tail, which is still under wraps! The front half does look smart though 🙂

I’ve always wanted to do Culdrose, trouble is it would take hours to get there by road, even from Somerset!
Unless of course, you call an (aerial) cab 🙂

Currently standing in front of a mirror with both arms stretched upwards.
So that’s four hands for a start 😉

I have this one, sourced from the WWW, which I think was taken a few years ago…
If anyone has Warbirds Worldwide issue 6, she’s on the front cover being flown by the late ‘Bob’ Guilford.
She’s christened the ‘Dragon of Cymru.”

😮 GORGEOUS! 😀
VX281 and VR930 will look like twins now 🙂

XV865 would have made a good acquisition for the Fleet Air Arm Museum collectio if they didn’t already have a Bucc Mk.2.

You do make a good point though, There were a few former FG.1 Phantoms at Leuchars at one stage, all of which have FAA pedigree unlike the prototype in the FAAM.
Before that, the RAFM flogging off the P.1B XA847 because they got a Lightning F.6 from Binbrook. I’m sure they have another ‘unremarkable’ Lightning (a pre-production aircraft?) in the collection that surely could have been sold instead?