I’ve been looking for shots of their two Canberra T19’s for years but so far I’ve only ever seen one shot which Newark Air Museum had. Inexplicably, they “doctored” the photo on their website and removed the 7 Sqn markings! But then they did the same to their T19 in the museum – removed the lovely 7 Squadron marks and slapped-on 85 Sqn markings instead – but never re-applied the dayglow patches. They also added tip tanks – rather odd seen as the T19 never carried them!
I’ve been checking things through with the museum and the T19 WH904 is mechanically configured as it came out of storage at Marshalls at Cambridge in the summer of 1985 i.e. nothing added and nothing removed.
I’m told that the colour scheme was chosen after careful viewing of “un-doctored” pictures from the Peter Green Collection. As you may know Peter is a noted Canberra author; he is also a long-standing member and Vice-President of the museum.
From the Virtual Museum CD I note it also served with 207; 35; TFS; 85 and 7 Squadron. Perhaps the 85 Squadron markings reflect on its time spent more locally at RAF Binbrook.
http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/aircraftlist.htm
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