[QUOTE=Mark12;1330899]How far do you want to go back?

Mark

Oh come on Mark12.. now your just showing off.!:D

There was only ever one front-line Phantom sqn, 892!
700P and 767 were second-line trials and training units, most RN phantoms had a very similar career patern, your argument dosen’t really stand.
As michelf says, the most significant British Phantom, XT596, is already preserved at FAAM

Where did i say front line squadrons??? I know there was only one front line sqdn, but how many surviving RN Phantoms have served will all RN Phantom sqdn’s???

So the ‘most significant british Phantom’ is preserved.. well that does not make it the most significant RN Phantom does it? It was never a fully navalised version and never served with the RN.
Yeovilton also have the prototype UK Concorde.. does not mean that all others are ‘insignificant’..!

XT867 is still around as far as i am aware, and is one of the few true RN FG.1 versions to survive. That is MY argument for it being in the FAAM, i don’t expect you to agree.

On the subject of Mossies i seem to recall a pic of one dumped in the Clavering / Wicken Bonhunt area of Essex.. does anyone have anymore info and why it came to be there.?:confused:

While going through some old scans I came across some images from Jerry Billing while he was a exchange pilot doing trials on the Swift and Hunter at West Raynham UK 1954-1956.Cheers Dave C

Great pics.. but i don’t suppose you have any of the Westland Wyverns that were based there with 787 Sqdn Naval Air Fighting Development Unit between 1954 – 55.? I realise that they were probably not his ‘thing’, but they were there around the same time..