Yes, the third survivor XD220 was apparently swapped for an ex-USN Phantom, which is now at East Fortune.
W&R18 however report it as still being under FAAM ownership and only on loan to Inteprid.
Such a shame there are only 3 left, and only one is on display in the UK at the FAAM. The Southampton Hall of Aviation’s jet is in store somewhere and will probably only emerge when they move to a new building, or demolish the old one to get the Sandringham out 🙂
This sounds more along the lines that Shackleton Griffon 58 cylinder heads and banks have been fitted to a Griffon 74 Firefly crankcase or an adapted Griffon 58 with modified reduction gear output shaft. The pitch and location of the five bolts that hold the exhaust flange to the cylinder head are different between 58 and 74. Therfore if running a 58 head, special exhaust stacks are required to be manufactured if fitted to a Firefly or a long Griffon Spitfire. The starting point for these new parts might well be the severed flange from the Shackleton exhausts.
Mark
You probably have hit the nail on the head there mark12.
Thanks for putting me right.
Not a Spit but the RNHF replaced the Firefly’s exhaust stubs with ex-Shackleton examples about 10 years ago.
Original Fly stubs were a bit on the thin side in those days, Shackleton equipment was the exact opposite 🙂
Such a shame that Hanningfield Metals smelted all the Canberra T.22s back in the 90’s – I would have loved cockpit from one of them to annoy the neighbours with 🙁
WV740 is now based at Hurn and is looked after I think by Meridian Aviation.
There is also a Sea Prince with the Bournemouth Aviation Museum, but that has only flown once in the last five years, and that was a ferry flight to Hurn 🙂
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