Friday, May 29, 2020

RAF Maintenance Serials 7400M - 7499M.

RAF Maintenance Serials 7400M - 7499M.
7400M:
Percival Prentice T1 VS264 - Struck off charge 03.02.1959.

7401M:
Percival Prentice T1 VS279 - Struck off charge 03.02.1959.

7402M:
Percival Prentice T1 VR282 - Fate unknown.

7403M:
Percival Prentice T1 VR290 - Fate unknown.

7404M:
Percival Prentice T1 VS331 - Fate unknown.

7405M:
Percival Prentice T1 VS369 - Fate unknown.
Photo of this aircraft taken at Wolverhampton-Pendeford 26.05.1951. Copyright R.A Scholefield.
7406M:
Percival Prentice T1 VS264 - Fate unknown.

7407M:
Hawker Hunter F5 WN957 - Fate unknown.

7408M:
Supermarine Swift f4 WK308 - Struck off charge 29.05.1958.

7409M:
de Haviland Cipmunk T10 WZ851 - Sold to the Royal Jordanian Air Force as T-203 but no further info known.

7410M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT646 - Scrapped at Catterick during the 1980's.

7411M:
Not taken up.

7412M:
Not taken up.

7413M:
Not taken up.

7414M:
Not taken up.

7415M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR2 XK989 - Scrapped.

7416M:
Not taken up.

7417M:
Gloster Meteor T7 WG981 - Scrapped at RAF Stafford during January 1962.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Stafford taken during 1958. Copyright Dave Welch.
7418M:
Not taken up.

7419M:
de Haviland Vampire NF10 WP244 - Perished on the dump at Thorney Island.

7420M:
de Haviland Vampire T11 WZ419 - Scrapped at RAF St Athan 13.06.1958.

7421M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT660 - On display at the Highland Aviation Museum, Inverness.
Photo of the aircraft on display at RAF Carlisle aprox 1963. Copyright Dave Welch.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Inverness taken 02.10.2016. Copyright Wallace Shackleton.
7422M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT684  - Cockpit section preserved in private ownership.
Photo of the aircraft on display with an ATC Squadron in Soulihull during the 1960s. Copyright Dave Welch.
Photo of the fueslage at RAF Brize Norton taken September 1991. Copyright Fergal Goodman.
Photo of the cockpit section beautifully restored and on display at Old Warden for one of their airshows 02.08.2009.
7423M:
de Haviland Vampire T11 XD457 - Scrapped at RAF Little Rissington.

7424M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WW643  - Scrapped at RAF Halton 21.02.1961.

7425M:
Not taken up.

7426M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT624 - Perished at Catterick Fire School.

7427M:
Supermarine Swift F2 WK214 - Struck off charge 02.06.1958.

7428M:
Supermarine Swift WK198 - Fuesalage on display at Brooklands Museum.
Photo of the aircraft on display at North Easy Air Museum, Sunderland. Photo taken 10.02.2007. Copyright Peter Clarke.
Photo of the aircraft on display outside at Brooklands taken 05.07.2014. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
Photo of the fuesalage on display inside the new hangar at Brooklands 01.01.2018. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
7429M:
Not taken up.

7430M:
Gloster Meteoer F8 WE901 - Scrapped.

7431M:
Auster AOP.9 WZ667 - Scrapped.

7432M:
Auster AOP.9 WZ724 - Under restoration at Middle Wallop.
Photo of the aircraft at Middle Wallop taken 10.09.2010. Copyright Chris England.
7433M:
Auster TW624 - Fate unknown.

7434M:
Auster TW575 - Fate unknown.

7435M:
Auster T7 WE539 - Airworthy as G-ATHU and based in Bedfordshire.
7436M:
Auster AOP.9 WZ276 - Fate unknown.

7437M:
de Haviland Chipmunk T10 WP773 - Scrapped at Kidlington August 1958.

7438M:
de Haviland Chipmunk T10 WP905 - Airworthy as G-BNZC and flown by the Shuttleworth collection as RCAF 671.
Photo taken during an airshow at Old Warden 20.06.2009. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
7439M:
de Haviland Chipmink WZ867 - Fuesalage stored in Skien, Norway.
Photo of the aircraft taken at Coventry Airport takne 13.08.1966. Copyright Nick Denbow.
Photo of the fueslage taken 28.10.2002. Copyright Air Britain.

7440M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN898 - Scrapped in 1958.

7441M:
Unknown.

7442M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT681 - Struck off charge 30.01.1963

7443M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX853 - Stored by the de Haviland Aircraft museum, London Colney.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Debden in 1963. Copyright Dave Welch.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the de Haviland Aircraft museum taken August 1974. Copyright Dave Welch.

Photo of the fuesalage pod at the de Haviland Aircraft museum taken 02.12.2001. Copyright Alan Allen.
7444M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX866 - Scrapped at Yatesbury 22.01.1962.

7445M:
Supermarine Swift FR5 WK279 - Struck off charge 29.05.1958.

7446M:
de Haviland Vampire T11 XE983 - Sold to the Indian Air Force as BY1005. Fate not known.

7447M:
Supermarine Swift FR5 XD951 - Perished at RAF Kirkham.

7448M:
Not taken up.

7449M:
Not taken up.

7450M:
de Haviland Vampire T11  XD430 - Scrapped.

7451M:
Not taken up.

7452M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX792 - Fate unknown.

7453M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX938 - Fate unknown.

7454M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX857- Fate unknown.

7455M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WZ318 - Fate unknown.

7456M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX922  - Fate unknown.

7457M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX847 - Scrapped at RAF Yatesbury 18.03.1964.

7458M:
de Haviland Venom NF3 WX905 - On display at Newark Air Museum.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Yatesbury in aprox 1963. Copyright Dave Welch.
Photo of the aircraft at North Weald. Exact date not known. Copyright Dave Welch.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Newark Air Museum taken in 2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
7459M:

de Haviland Venom NF3 WX801 - Fate unknown.

7460M:
Not taken up.

7461M:
de Haviland Vampire T11 XE828 - Scrapped.

7462M:
Gloster Meteor F8 WA824 - Perished on the fire dump at RAF Valley.

7463M:
Gloster Meteor F8 WF657 - Scrapped.

7464M:
Gloster Javalin FAW1 XA564 - On display at the RAF Museum Cosford.
Photo of the aircraft at the RAF Musuem Cosford taken April 1990. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the RAF Museum Cosford. Copyright Richard A Flagg.
7465M:
Handley Page Marathon XA255 - Scrapped at RAF Topcliffe.

7466M:
Not taken up.

7467M:
de Haviland Chipmunk T10 WP978 - Used as an instructional airframe at Filton and scrapped.

7468M:
Vickers Valetta T1  VL268 - Fate unknown.

7469M:
Vickers Valetta T1 VL269 - Fate unknown.

7470M:
Gloster Javelin FAW1 XA553 - On display outside Thunder City, South Africa.
Photo of the aircraft on gate guard duty at RAF Stanmore Park in 1990. Copyright Garry Larkin.
Photo of the aircraft at Cape Town airport taken 16.09.2006. Copyright Ray Barber.
7471M:
Hawker Hunter F5 WP192 - Scrapped 17.04.1962.

7472M:
de Haviland Vampire T11 XE926 - Fate unknown.

7473M:
de Haviland Vampire T11 XE946 - Fueslage pod on display at Cranwell Heritage centre.
Photo of the fuesalage pod stored for the RAF Museum at RAF Cardington taken April 1991. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the cockpit pod on display at the Cranwell Heritage Centre taken 03.03.2012. Copyright Alan Wilson.
7474M:
Vickers Valetta T1 VL274 - Fate unknown.

7475M:
Vickers Valetta T1 VL276 - Fate unknown.

7476M:
Vickers Valetta T1 VL277 - Broken up at RAF Halton in 1964.

7477M:
Gloster Meteor FR9 WL256 - Scrapped 31.08.1959 at Aston Down.

7478M:
Not taken up.

7479M:
Vickers Valetta T1 WD168 - Perished on the fire dump at Strubby.

7480M:
Vickers Valetta T1 VW838 - Scrapped.

7481M:
Not taken up.

7482M:
Not taken up.

7483M:
Not taken up.

7484M:
Gloster Javelin FAW1 XA550 - Scrapped at Weeton camp.

7485M:
Gloster Javelin WT830 - Scrapped.

7486M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN888 - Scrapped at RAF Halton.

7487M:
Hawker Hunter F2 WN910 - Perished at Manstom Fire school.

7488M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT560 - Scrapped during 1975 after spending time on the fire dump at St Athan.

7489M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT567 - Perished on the fire dump at RAF St Athan.

7490M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT568 - Scrapped at RAF St Athan.

7491M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT569 - On display in Bridgend with an ATC Squadron.
Photo of the aircraft at Kenfig Hill taken April 1978. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the aircraft at Kenfig Hill taken 10.08.2018. Copyright Mike Burdett.
7492M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT558 - Struck off charge 04.10.1962 at RAF St Athan.

7493M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT559 - Perished on the fire dump at Newton.

7494M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT566 - Perished at RAF Catterick fire school.

7495M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT592 - Perished at RAF Catterick fire school.

7496M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT612 - Gate guard at RAF Henlow.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Henlow taken 28.05.2016. Copyright Erwin Alexander.
7497M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT570 - Scrapped at RAF Cosford during 1968.

7498M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT576 - Scrapped at RAF Cosford 09.11.1974.

7499M:
Hawker Hunter F1 WT555 -
Preserved in Ealing, London.
Photo of the aircraft while on display in Ealing, London taken September 1990. Copyright Alan Allen.

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