Yeh: I thought of India, but what?

Another one with a hump: the SM79 Gobbo Maledetto (Cursed Hunchback)
Benghazi graveyard, 1943

I found this on
http://kalasagnglahi.angelfire.com/content09.html

Designed and built by the PAF Self-Reliance Development Wing in 1975 from locally designed jigs and fixtures. It closely resembles the SIAI Marchetti SF.260MP trainer, but with modified wingtips and cockpit and the prototype was initially thought to be a modified SF.260MP. Comparison of data with those for the SF.260MP indicates a slight increase in wing span (though not in gross area), a lower empty weight, and (despite a similar powerplant and identical max T-O weight) a slightly reduced performance. First test flight was also in 1975. Status is currently unknown.

PAF XT-001 scanned from a photocopy of Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1978-1979 edition.

No mention of XT-002 though

G-AOPL (VS609) was bought from Shackletons at Sywell in September 1966 and flown to Sharjah, leaving the same month. It had a number of adventures on the way, including engine failure over the Alps, and repairs in Bagdhad after an engine fire on takeoff. It arrived in Sharjah via Abu Dhabi in January 1967, and was sold to South Africa in mid 1967, becoming ZS-EUS. I have seen that it is now in the SAAF museum at Swartkop.
see Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/5453551337/
There are several other Prentice bulk photos in the same photstream.
Laurence

Here’s another Beverley. Photographed from XB263 on our way to the Farnborough show on 8 September 1961.

And another Valetta, VW 197 at Blackbushe 17 July 1959, about to depart on an ATC visit to Belgium.

Laurence

Thanks Rochford. I need new glasses!

However, while we are on the subject, any idea if the Prentice rudder in the Sharjah air museum (Al Mahatta) is from the Aviation Traders batch? It carries 2 plates with SER NO PAC/R234, DRG NO AJT/576, 1/3/49, and a stamp PAC81.

Laurence