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Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 20:58
by phantom_fgr2
thats pretty helpful, cheers pete!
Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 21:42
by Motormouse
Here you go Ben,
All the UK Phantom histories on one site.........
http://www.thephantomshrine.co.uk/menu.htm
The last Phantom I worked on,was XT 596, the YF-4K that is now preserved at Yeovilton museum,prior to its last overhaul it had been Bae's trials plane based at Holme-on-Spalding Moor, then latterly Scampton.
ttfn
Pete
Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 22:40
by phantom_fgr2
Posted: 29 Aug 2006, 05:15
by Motormouse
Yep, same photo....lots of us had a copy....but the phacts are a definitely a bit 'blurred'...I know better
ttfn
Pete
Posted: 29 Aug 2006, 22:57
by firebird
Yep Pete,
You are absolutely correct in all details bar one small one. That is that the aircraft was actually a 56sqn one painted up in 23sqn markings especially for the Greenham Common airshow.
23 had actually been disbanded from Wattisham and the nameplate passed to Mount Pleasant, as you quite rightly say. XV501 arrived a couple of weeks before the show and therefore was devoid of sqn insignia. The stencils were actually made up from shots taken by one of our pilots who had recently come back from a tour in the Falklands. The scheme only lasted about a week afterward the show before it was in full 56 markings.
I did make us chuckle though, all the people that thought it flew back from the Falklands to be a static in an air show.