Well done to Tony for scanning these and David for posting them.

Yes, a big thank you for these and your other postings as they are fantastic shots.

In 1957 the 79th Fighter Bomber Squadron (part of the 20th Fighter Bomber Wing) were based at RAF Woodbridge with F-84F’s.

But 1957 was the year the 79th started converting to the F-100,so by the November of that year when the collision occured they might have fully gone over to F-100’s ?

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Jaguar GR.1A XX741 belonging to the Bentwaters Cold War Museum,seen at Bentwaters in October,2009

Thats great news…can’t wait to the day when it gets airborne.

Here is the same Voodoo 70270 ex Texas Air National Guard in use for battle damage repair training at RAF Woodbridge in September,1985

Holton ‘Triple Plea’ just outside of Halesworth in Suffolk has lots of photo’s on the walls of P-47’s and B-24’s which were based a few hundred yards down the road at Holton airfield during WW2.

Plus they serve real ale guest beers 😀

Cheers – Graham

I hope Bentwaters manage to work to some kind of collecting policy!

These airframes fit in perfectly with our Collecting policy as they are Cold War military related.
It would be very nice just to have RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge related aircraft on display like an A-10A,F-4C/D,F-86A/D/F,F-84F/G,
F-101A/C,F-100D/F,F-16C,HC-130N/P,MH-53J…. etc but the chances of any of these is very slim considering the USAF Museums very strict guidelines on any of their ex military airframes going to private museums 🙁

– G2,
Bentwaters Cold War Museum

Above info is slightly out of date. The PT-19 Cornell will also be present in one capacity or another, weather permitting of course.

We were meant to have flown already this week for a few hours. Ho hum……

G

Thanks for the update chippie51,will be great to see the PT-19 there again.

– Graham