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By: - 20th June 2005 at 16:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
LA255
Still serving with 7 Squadron, Bomber Command, with the Black XU code I see. :rolleyes:
Mark
By: - 20th June 2005 at 16:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Nice pics, awful colours!
By: - 20th June 2005 at 17:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yes, I agree - quite awful! - Mind you you should see the state of some of the Harriers there! What was her original code?
By: - 20th June 2005 at 17:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thanks for posting..
By: - 20th June 2005 at 17:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
You're very welcome - here's a few more
By: - 20th June 2005 at 17:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yes, I agree - quite awful! - Mind you you should see the state of some of the Harriers there! What was her original code?
JX-U
Mark
By: - 31st October 2018 at 10:07 Permalink
Any idea where the aircraft is now...?
By: - 31st October 2018 at 10:16 Permalink
It went through Vintage Fabrics in 2012, so the colour scheme will be right now at least!
By: - 31st October 2018 at 12:04 Permalink
I believe it belongs to 1 Sqn Groundcrew, so it’ll be where they are, I’d think.
By: - 31st October 2018 at 19:43 Permalink
It's at RAF Lossiemouth.
By: - 31st October 2018 at 21:29 Permalink
Photo taken at Lossie last October on the Highland Reserve Forces website - http://www.hrfca.co.uk/public-news/employers-go-behind-scenes-raf-lossiemouth/attachment/dsc_0683
By: - 1st November 2018 at 06:23 Permalink
Looks better ... :) Could do with a few more exhaust stubs.
By: - 1st November 2018 at 16:40 Permalink
Bring her back to the air !
By: - 1st November 2018 at 18:40 Permalink
Get her to the BBMF and let them do their thing! They did it for TE311 let them do it for this one too
By: - 2nd November 2018 at 04:50 Permalink
It was at BBMF for storage when 1 Sqn sold their Harriers. When the Sqn stood up again, it was given back. There’s no funding for it to be taken on to BBMF’s books, and the owners aren’t selling. It’s owned by the groundcrew of 1 Sqn.
By: - 6th November 2018 at 20:49 Permalink
BBMF told me that if they could, they would
By: - 7th November 2018 at 00:16 Permalink - Edited 7th November 2018 at 00:17
BBMF looked after this Spitfire and it was made cosmetically sound while at Coningsby. It was a bit of a basket case, iirc the wings were pretty jiggered (technical term), no one at BBMF thought it was a go'er at that time, but with enough money...
By: - 7th November 2018 at 17:45 Permalink
Are the any parts unique to this variant?
By: - 8th November 2018 at 08:12 Permalink
Managed to 'trade' some of the blind flying panel intstruments for my equally aged cloth bomber back in '82/3 when I was groundcrew on F Troop, they are still in use! Trent Aero at Castle Donington had given us a bubble canopy as part of a minor refurb of the airframe, BBMF were continually robbing parts from it during my tenure on F Troop '82/85.
By: - 9th November 2018 at 16:35 Permalink
Gosh, I haven't heard anyone mention F Troop for ages (I was on 233 OCU)
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By: midiman69 - 20th June 2005 at 16:34 - Edited 2nd October 2019 at 11:40
Managed to visit RAF Cottesmore with a friend in the Mob - here are some pictures of the rarely seen Mk21 Spit LA255