l.garey:
You mention walking past ETPS. If you entered the Establishment through the gate adjacent to ETPS, continued straight ahead down the hill to the Comet test tank, turned left to the area of the main maintenance hangar (C Shed? Memory problems!) you probably came across the Avenger. There were two of which one was operational (barely) so I assume that lauriebe’s info is correct.

Thanks to lauriebe (I also replied on the Prune forum) and pdryan for the information about the Farnborough Avenger. It must have been KE436 from what lauriebe says. The other was probably KE446, again according to what lauriebe found.

Farnborough ?1957

When I was in the Air Training Corps in the 1950s, a regular outing was to the SBAC show at Farnborough. Apart from the show itself, I enjoyed walking past the site of the ETPS and the other active units. There were always rare, prototype and abandoned aircraft of all sorts. I was sorting out some old photos recently and came across these 2 taken, I think, in September 1957. They show an apparently abandoned Grumman Avenger, but I have no record of a visible serial. From its modern style roundels it seems to perhaps be one of the late batch of AS4s used by the FAA from 1953 to 1955. Can anyone help identify it? Was anyone at Farnborough at that time, or did you have a record of it?

For my orginal query and photographs see:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?p=3493963&posted=1#post3493963

http://l.garey.googlepages.com/115sqdairtrainingcorps

Singapore Lodestar

I was interested to see these messages about Lodestars. There was one on the dump at Seletar, Singapore, that I saw there on 16 July 1989. It was N5135, and was in reasonable condition, except that it was engineless. I tried to persuade the authorities to preserve it, but to no avail. Anyone know what happened to it?