Thanks for the information regarding the aircraft, it seems to make sense that they were painted at St Mawgan as they would have had large stocks of SAR yellow paint to hand. I can imagine the painters would probably have sprayed the hangar cat yellow if it sat still for long enough. Still, I was surprised at how early this happened.
Looking at the history of XR498 it is nothing short of miraculous that it’s still in one piece and it seems to have continued its lucky streak in finding its way to Morayvia where it is finally getting a bit of TLC. Nimgen, thanks for taking the time to post, I’’’d never heard of SERE, but it explains some of the comments from its time at Little Rissington about occasional visits and quantities of bullet cases lying around on the floor.