Amazing photo, Atcham Tower. The only registration I can see in full appears to be G-AOMO, and you can see its serial is “VS” something. Yet, in paulmcmillan’s scan it is given as VR209. I wonder how accurate the cross checking was at the time?
The same match is also given in the list in http://www.southendtimeline.com/percivalprentice.htm
Thanks Adrian. Thunderbird also noted that in post #30.
I wish I could find any trace of these Javelins, but it seems they were all disposed of when the Poly moved house.
One other source of information might be the BA Archive at Heathrow. When I went there a couple of years ago they were VERY helpful and they have a BIG archive.
Re the C-47 on Sentosa. I saw it there in 1987, together with the Meteor, Hunter and Sea Vixen. It carried the marks WB and 886 on the fin, although they were difficult to decipher. When the people from Queensland came in 1989 they removed the other 3, but the C-47 had been scrapped, exactly when I am not sure. The photos of the C-47 at the Poly were in about 1978 or 1979.
Thanks lauriebe. Let’s see if anyone on the thread has any information. You never know with this site!
PS: Is Penang still as nice a place as it was in the 1980s/90s?
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