Ah, but Rob, do you know the story as to why it was missing in the first place…… 😉

Its worth noting that the detachable pen nib section at the rear is not from the same airframe. That came off XA801, formerly on RAF Stafford gate prior to it being done to death by the scrapman. Hence its been outside a lot longer than the rest of the aircraft.
That said XA699 has still been at the museum 25 years + 😮 it seems only yesterday I was sitting on the wing drilling out thousands of rivets so we could seperate the inner and outer wing sections for transport……

Not meaning to be pedantic Jagx204, but the green blanking plates you see are actually for the Sundstrand constant speed drive unit, which is still fitted, and is blanked off because the Alternator has been removed. The starters are actually behind the front engine bulkheads you see in the picture, and appear very much present and correct to me.

The forked pipes you see in the picture feed cool air to the CSDU from a NACA duct located under the intakes, through the forward engine bulkhead, into the CSDU. These have nothing to do with inhibiting the engine, and will have simply been removed for access.

Cheers

Flipflopman

I stand corrected and bow to flipflopmans obvious superior intellect in things Vulcan.
Memory can be a funny thing, since the spares recovery was 23 years ago 😮 I obviously have been deluding myself for a long time.

Looking at the one of the engins, there appears to be some pipes missing, were then removed by the RAF to inhibit the engines or something?
p_j

The starters were removed from all 4 engines ( the green blanking plates can be seen on a couple of the pics) these had cooling ducts connected to them which were also disconnected.
There were also some other bits and bobs from the airframe spares recovered and quite a lot from the cockpit. The NAV Plotter and AEO areas had most of the visible kit removed – those fitted in the photo’s were replacements found later, I recall some came via Nigel Spurr (now owner of two shiny Canberra PR9’s)

Percival Proctor V G-AGTC

Oliver, assuming its G-AGTC it was a Percival Proctor V, and the info I have from British Civil Aircraft Register is it was damaged beyond repair 2/5/1969, at Malaga Spain.

HTH

Suffolks Secret Airforce

There is now a whole squadron of Jaguars at the former RAF Bentwaters, all with the ‘Everett Airforce’ as I think he’s running out of space at Sproughton. The full list (as of the weekend) is:

XX737 Jaguar GR3A EE Private
XX832 Jaguar T2A EZ Private
XX838 Jaguar T4 FZ Private
XZ118 Jaguar GR3A FR Private
XZ356 Jaguar GR3A FU Private
XZ360 Jaguar GR3A FN Private
XZ361 Jaguar GR3 FT Private
XZ366 Jaguar GR3A FC Private
XZ369 Jaguar GR3A EU Private
XZ385 Jaguar GR3A FT Private
XZ396 Jaguar GR3A EQ Private
XZ400 Jaguar GR3A FQ Private

Plus another 10 at Sproughton 😮

Regards