Sunday, May 31, 2020

RAF Maintenance Serials 7500M - 7599M.

RAF Maintenance Serials 7500M - 7599M.

7500M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT616 - Scrapped at Weston Super Mare in 1980.

7501M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT578 - Scrapped at RAF Halton 30.04.1962.

7502M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT583 - Fate unknown.

7503M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT584 - Scrapped at RAF Cosford.

7504M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT558 - Scrapped at RAF Upwood in 1976.

7505M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT593 - Perished on the fire dump at RAF Bicester.

7506M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT595 - On the fire dump at RAF Bicester by May 1973.

7507M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT686 - Scrapped.

7508M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT687 - Scrapped.

7509M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT692 - Scrapped.

7510M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT694 - On display at Caernarfon Airworld, Gwynedd.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Caernafon Airport taken 26.10.2016 Copyright Wallace Shackleton.
7511M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN894 - Perished at RAF Bicester.

7512M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN895 - Perished at the Catterick Fire School.

7513M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN897 - Perished at the Catterick Fire School.

7514M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT636 - Perished on the fire dump at RAF Stradishall.

7515M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT696 - Scrapped at St Athan.

7516M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW632 - Scrapped at St Athan in 1971.

7517M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW634 - Scrapped at St Athan.

7518M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW637 - Scrapped at St Athan.

7519M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW638 - Scrapped at St Athan.

7520M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW641 - Scrapped at St Athan.

7521M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW644 - Scrapped at St Athan in 1974.

7522M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN908 - Scrapped at St Athan.

7523M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT613 - Scrapped at Weeton 18.03.1964.

7524M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT617 - Scrapped at Weeton.

7525M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT619 - On display at Montrose Museum as a partially sectioned fuesalage.
Photos of the aircraft while on display at the Manchester Museum of Science and Technology. Taken 09.11.2005. Copyright Garry Lakin.

Photo of the aircraft on display at Montrose taken 29.12.2019. Copyright Niall Patterson.
7526M:

Hawker Hunter F1 WT622 - Perished at Catterick fire school in 1972.

7527M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT625 - Perished at Catterick fire school.

7528M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT626 - Perished at Catterick fire school.

7529M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT641 - Perished at Catterick fire school.

7530M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT648 - Cockpit section on display at Boscombe Down Aviation Collection.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF St Athan taken September 1989. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF St Athan taken October 1991. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the cockpit section on display at the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection taken 17.04.2015. Copyright Stu Carr.
7531M:

Hawker Hunter F1 WT649 - Struck off charge 04.10.1962.

7532M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT651 - On display at Newark Air Museum.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Newark taken in 2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
7533M:

Hawker Hunter F1 WT680 - Preserved in Fleet, Harrogate.
Photo of the aircraft on display in Fleet, Harrogate taken 05.05.2016. Photo copyright Richard Flagg.
7534M:

Hawker Hunter F1 WT682 - Scrapped at Weeton.

7535M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT683 - Scrapped at Speke airport.
Photo of the aircraft at Speke airport taken in 1969. Copyright William Leece.
7536M:

Hawker Hunter F1 WT685 - Scrapped at Weeton.

7537M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT693 - Scrapped at Weeton.

7538M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW601 - Scrapped at RAF Halton.

7539M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW602 - Perished at Manston Fire School.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Manston at an unknown date. Copyright Dave Welch.
7540M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW604 - Scrapped at RAF Halton.

7541M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW609 - Scrappped at RAF Halton.

7542M:
Not taken up.

7543M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN901 - Perished on the fire dump at RAF Newton.

7544M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN904 - On display at Sywell Aerodrome Musuem.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Sywell taken in 2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
7545M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN906 - Scrapped at Melksham 07.10.1964.

7546M:
English Electric Canberra B2 WJ769 - Scrapped at Binrook.

7547M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX932 - Fate unknown.

7548M:
Supermarine Spitfire XIX PS915 - Airworthy with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight based at RAF Conningsby.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Leuchars in June 1962. Copyright Dave Welch.
Having been restored to fly this photo was taken at RAF St Mawgan 02.08.1995. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the aircraft at Kemble airport taken July 2007. Copyright Pete Webber.
Photo of the aircraft at Duxford airfield taken 18.08.2016. Copyright Gordon Riley.

7549M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX843 - Fate not known.

7550M:
Hawker Hunter F5 WP110 - Perished at Farnborough in 1959.

7551M:
Nothing known.

7552M:
Gloster Javalin WT836 - Scrapped 23.03.1964 at RAF Cosford.

7553M:
de Haviland Vampire XK629 - Scrapped in the 1960s at 328 ATC Squadron in Kingston.

7554M:
Noorduyn AT-16 Harvard IIb FS890 - Broken up for spares to keep the other Boscombe Down examples flying after 1973.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Little Rissington in aprox 1964. Coypright Dave Welch.
Photo of the aircraft at Little Rissington taken 11.09.1971. Copyright Gordon Riley.
7555M:
Supermarine Spitfire MKV AR614 - Airworthy as N614VC with Vulcan Warbirds, Seattle, Washington.
Photo of the aircraft at Seattle, Washington taken 19.09.2017. Copyright Peter Foster.
7556M:
de Haviland Chipmunk WK584 - Cockpit section survives with an ATC Squadron in Ramsey.
Photo of the cockpit on display at an event 23.08.2009. Copyright Richard Flagg.
7557M:
de Haviland Vampire T11 WZ423 - Scrapped.

7558M:
Gloster Javelin FAW1 XA544 - Scrapped at St Athan in 1963.

7559M:
Supermarine Spitfire XVI TB287 - Believed scrapped at Bicester circa 1962.

7560M:
de Haviland Vampire T11 XK630 - Scrapped at Cranwell.

7561M:
Avro Shackleton MR1 WB846 - Scrapped at RAF Kinloss in 1980.
Photo of the aircraft at Kinloss taken in 1979. Copyright eLaReF.
7562M:
Auster T7 WE547 - Fate not known.

7563M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN892 - Perished on the fire dump at Kemble.

7564M:
de Haviland Vampire T11 XE982 - Cockpit section survives in private hands in Ireland.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Bicester in aprox 1964. Copyright Dave Welch.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Dunkeswell, taken July 1998. Copyright Alan Allen.
7565M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX849 - Perished at Catterick fire school.

7566M:
Gloster Meteor NF12 WS687 - Scrapped at RAF Henlow.

7567M:
Gloster Meteor NF12 WS603 - Struck off charge 25.01.1964 at RAF Valley.

7568M:
Gloster Meteor NF12 WS666 - Scrapped at RAF Cosford.

7569M:
Hawker Hunter F5 WP126 - Scrapped at RAF Cranwell North in 1977.
Photos of the aircraft at RAF Newton in aprox 1960.
7570M:
Hunting Jet Provost T1 XD674 - On display at the RAF Museum Cosford.
Photo of the aircraft at the RAF Museum Cosford taken in 1986. Copyright London Eye - Fighter Control.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the RAF Museum Cosford taken 15.08.2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
7571M:
Not taken up.

7572M:
Not taken up.

7573M:
Not taken up.

7574M:
Not taken up.

7575M:
de Haviland Vampire FB9 WL607 - Scrapped.

7576M:
Gloster Meteor T7 WL607 - Scrapped.

7577M:
de Haviland Vampire FB5 VV542 - Scrapped at 936 ATC Squadron in Hertford during August 1971.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the ATC Squadron taken August 1971. Copyright Peter Foster.
7578M:
Vickers Valetta C1 VL278 - Fate unknown.

7579M:
Gloster Meteor T7 WG940 - Perished on the fire dump at RAF West Raynham.

7580M:
Hawker Hunter F5 WP147 - Perished on the Catterick fire dump circa 1963.

7581M:
Hawker Hunter F5 WP184 - Perished on the fire dump at Catterick.

7582M:
Hawker Hunter F5 WP190 - On display at the Tangmere Aviation Museum.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Tangmere taken in 2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
7583M:

Hawker Hunter F5 WP185 - Survives in private ownership in the Great Dunmow, Essex area.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the RAF Museum Hendon taken in July 1975. Copyright Franco Sella.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Abingdon taken May 1991. Copyright Alan Allen.
7584M:

Hawker Hunter F5 WP191 - Scrapped at Bridgenorth in 1963.
Photo of the aircraft at Bridgenorth date unknown. Photo copyright Dave Welch.
7585M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT683 - Scrapped at Speke February 1985. 
Photo of the aircraft at Speke date unknown. Copyright eLaReF.

 
7586M:
Gloster Javelin FAW1 XA551 - Scrapped at RAF Halton.

7587M:
Vickers Valetta C1 VX546 - Scrapped at Sutton-On-Hull.

7588M:
de Haviland Vampire FB5 VZ183 - Scrapped.

7589M:
English Electric Canberra B2 WD936 - Broken up at Samelsbury in 1968.
Photo of the aircraft in flight. Copyight via John Sheehan.
7590M:

English Electric Canberra B2 WH668 - Scrapped.

7591M:
Hawker Hunter F5 WN978 - Perished at Catterick fire school.

7592M:
Gloster Javelin FAW2 XD158 - Scrapped at RAF Bicester in 1963.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Halton date unknown. Copyright Dave Welch.
7593M:
Gloster Meteor FR9 WB115 - Perished on the dump at RAF Conningsby.

7594M:
Handley Page Hastings TG573 - Fate unknown.

7595M:
Auster AOP6 VF582 - On display at the National Air Force Museum of Canada, registered C-FLWK.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the National Air Force Museum of Canada, taken May 2011. Copyright Peter Webber.
7596M:
Hawker Hunter F4 WT719 - Scrapped.
Photo of the aircraft at Prestwick taken 19.06.1974. Copyright David Cain.
7597M:
de Haviland Chipmunk WD352 - Broken up for spares at RAF Newton 21.05.1969.

7598M:
de Haviland Venom FB5 WA215 - Perished at RAF Syerston during the 1960s.

7599M:
Gloster Meteor NF11 WD707 - Perished at RAF Church Fenton.