Its funny how much these little tags add to the story and interest in the parts themselves. I have several Hornet parts with “serialled” tags too.

Totally agree. Those tags and the information they contain are history themselves.

Its nice to see your making progress on these projects. Good luck with them and it was lovely to meet you at Cockpitfest and have a look at your project.

Cheers Ollie for the kind comments, and good to meet you too 🙂

Rob

Wyvern

Like most aircraft the Wyvern shared some parts with other types. But when these items come complete with some Wyvern provenance it makes them a bit more relevant.
For instance this emergency hand hydraulic pump was found by another forumite (thanks Warren) and still has its ‘REPAIRABLE’ tag. It was removed from WN326 (which incidentally was a Suez war veteran) on ?.4.57 whilst at Fleetlands for modernisation as it was leaking internally.

Another item is this AYF antenna that was originally fitted to the underside of one of the horizontal tail surfaces. Acquired from Robert B (cheers Robs) it was removed as ‘UNSERVICEABLE’ from VZ765 when with 813 sqdn on the 28/8/57. Incidentally VZ765 had a rather undignified ending, as on the 25/3/58 it suffered a partial undercarriage collapse whilst landing onboard HMS Eagle. With the Wyvern coming to the end of its service career it was ditched overboard into the sea three days later.

Rob