Chippy went to Halton Tues afternoon, stayed overnight, so that the boss could fly with the AOC in the chippy the following day.

Sorry wrong code letters the ones quoted are 550 Sqn. HW-R is the one we are replicating from 100 Sqn with 31 missions and yes if the yellow gas patch is on the photo’s it will be on the aircraft. Four or five of the crew are still with us and I believe one of them was involved with the nose art, so hopefully there are more pictures available for us to use, to go with the ones we already have. Picture is 550Sqn.

Roobarb
You beat me to it, its not money but good research, we had some good original photo’s showing all the detail required, Arco did the rest and as you can see the end result is excellant

Mike
Is this the sort of picture you are after

No drawings for the economiser cover I’m afraid, the turrets are not covered by the drawings we have. but we have the maint/spare manuals for the FN121

The other drawing I was looking for was A1627 but we have sold out. I will post picture of said drawing, we have one framed in our crewroom, on here tomorrow.

Having stripped ” TB382″ down, no data plates found, taken years ago probably, one C wing and one E wing lots of fibre glass panels, records that stop around the 1960s wheres the clear lineage. That was the same with TE311 except we found one paint encrusted plate with the a/c nos on.

How can anyone be SURE we haven’t just stripped down any Mk XVI. I would be interested to know.

Heres a picture from PA474 showing a section of the ammo track, we fitted this a few years ago. We borrowed the tracking from S for Sugar and had it copied by Airframe assys

Yes, you can read the part nos of the track sections although the drawings are not that brilliant The originals they scanned, were not that good.