Friday, July 31, 2020

RAF Maintenance serials 8700M - 8799M.

RAF Maintenance serials 8700M - 8799M.
8700M:
Vickers VC10 ZD234 - Nose section believed to have been scrapped at RAF Brize Norton after use as a simulator.

8701M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP352 - On display at Flugaustellung Hermeskeil, Germany.
Photo of the helicopter taken in June 2019. Copyright Alan Allen.
8702M:
Hawker Hunter F6A XG196 - Stored at Bentwaters.
Photo of the aircraft at Greenham Common 31.07.1976. Copyright George Woods.
Photo of the aircraft at Bracknell, Berkshire taken 16.07.1988. Copyright Nigel Howarth.
Photo of the aircraft stored at Bentwaters taken 30.03.2014. Copyright Richard A Flagg.
8703M:
Gloster Meteor T7 VW453 - On display at the Jet Age Museum, Gloucester Staverton Airport.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Innsworth taken 04.03.2007. Copyright Richard A Flagg.
8704M:
Not taken up.

8705M:
Blackburn Buccaneer S2B XT281 - Scrapped at Elgin in 1997.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Lossiemouth taken in 1986. Copyright Irish251 - Flickr.
8706M:
Hawker Hunter F6 XF383 - Cockpit section privatly owned in Gloucestershire.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Valley taken in 1979. Copyright Irish251 - Flickr.
8707M:

Hawker Hunter F6 XF386 - Destroyed on the Otterburn ranges by 1996.

8708M:
Hawker Hunter F6 XF509 - Preserved at Fort Paul Armoury.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Chivenor taken September 1995. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Fort Paul Armoury taken 15.09.2015. Copyright Wallace Shackleton.
8709M:

Hawker Hunter F6 XG209 - Cockpit section privatly owned in London.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Halton taken April 1993. Copyright Alan Allen.
8710M:
Hawker Hunter F6 XG274 - Privatly owned in the Kesgrave, Norfolk area..
Photo of the aircraft at Greenham Common taken 31.07.1976. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the aircraft stored at Kesgrave, Suffolk taken 19.03.2022. Copyright Richard E Flagg.

8711M:

Hawker Hunter F6 XG290 - Cockpit section on display at the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection.
Photo of the aircraft at Swanton Morley taken November 1991. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the cockpit section on display at the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection taken 24.05.2014. Copyright Stu Carr.
8712M:

Hawker Hunter F6 XF439 - Scrapped at Pendine sand ranges during February 1991.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Chivenor 05.08.1972. Copyright Chris England.
8713M:
Hawker Hunter F6 XG225 - On gate guard duty for the RAF Museum Cosford.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Wethersfield taken 19.05.1962. Copyright Jim Cain.
Photo of the aircraft at the RAF Museum Cosford taken in 2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
8714M:
Hawker Hunter F6 XK149 - Cockpit section privatly owned in the Calhoun area, Goergia.
Photo of the aircraft at Bruntingthorpe taken in 1995. Copyright a_man_called_matyn - Flickr.
8715M:

Hawker Hunter FGA9 XG264 - Destroyed on the Otterburn ranges during 1986.
Photo of the aircraft at Exeter taken 27.06.1970. Copyright Chris England.
8716M:
Blackburn Buccaneer S2B XV155 - Scrapped in 1991.

8717M:
Hawker Hunter F6A XE608 - Scrapped at RAF Laarbruch in 1991.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Abingdon taken 15.09.1979. Copyright Ray Barber.
8718M:
Aerospatile Gazelle HT3 XX396 - In use at the EOD School, Arncott.
Photo of the helicopter but location and date not known. Copyright Lee Mullins.
8719M:
Westland Wessex HAS3 XT257 - Preserved at the Bournemouth Aviation Museum.
Photo of the helicopter on display at Bournemouth Aviation Museum taken 18.02.2009. Copyright Chris England.
8720M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP353 - Perished at Catterick in 1984.
Photo of the helicopter at Plymouth taken 22.07.1967. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the helicopter at Catterick taken circa 1980. Copyright eLaReF.


 
8721M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP354 - Scrapped.
Photo of the helicopter at RAF Brawdy taken in the late 1970's to early 1980s. copyright Roger Winser.
8722M:
English Electric Canberra B2 WJ640 - Broken up in August 1991.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Cosford taken June 1990. Copyright Irish251 - Flickr.
8723M:
Hawker Hunter T7 XL567 - Scrapped.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Valley taken 13.08.1977. Copyright Russ Smith.
8724M:
Hawker Siddley Harrier GR3 XW923 - Cockpit section on display at the Harrier Museum, RAF Wittering.
Photo of the aircraft at Leicester taken in 1980. Copyright Chris Edwards. 

Photo of the cockpit section on display at the Harrier Museum, RAF Wittering taken June 2013. Copyright Alan Allen.
8725M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XL317 - Scrapped in 1987.
Photo of the aircraft at Exeter taken 28.06.1969. Copyright Chris England.
8726M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP299 - On display at the RAF Museum Hendon.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the RAF Museum Hendon taken 11.05.2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
8727M:
Westland Whirlwind HCC12  XR486 - On display at the International Helicopter Museum, Weston Super Mare.
Photo of the helicopter on display at the International Helicopter Museum, Weston Super Mare taken 17.04.2010. Copyright Stu Carr.
8728M:
Not taken up.

8729M:
English Electric Canberra PR7 WJ815 - Scrapped at RAF Conningsby during 1992.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Finningley taken 20.09.1969. Copyright Geoff Allan.
8730M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XD186 - Stored at Hermskeil, Germany.
Photo of the helicopter at RAF Coltishall taken 08.07.1976. Copyright Keith Sowter.
Photo of the helicopter stored at Hermskeil, Germany taken June 2019. Copyright Alan Allen.
8731M:
Unknown.

8732M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XJ729 - Airworthy as G-BVGE and based at Chard, Somerset.
Photo of the helicopter as G-BVGE at RNAS Yeovilton taken 13.07.2019. Copyright Chris England.
8733M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XL318 - Aircraft on display at the RAF Museum Hendon.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Scampton taken 29.06.1975. Copyright eLaReF.

Photo of the aircraft on display at the RAF Museum Hendon taken 18.12.2015. Copyright Erwin Alexander.
8734M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XM657 - Perished at RAF Manston in November 1992.
Photo of the aircraft at Manston taken 18.03.1983. Copyright John Oram.
8735M:
English Electric Canberra B2 WJ681 - Perished on the fire dump at RAF Brawdy by 1987.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Coltishall taken 19.09.1964. Copyright David Whitworth.
8736M:
Hawker Hunter F6 XF375 - On display at the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum.
Photo of the aircaft at Greenham Common taken 31.07.1976. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the aircraft at Duxford airfield taken 17.09.1994. Copyright eLaReF.

Photo of the aircraft dismantled at Old Sarum airfield taken August 2012. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the Bomscombe Down Avation Collection, Old Sarum taken 27.04.2014. Copyright Stu Carr.
8737M:
Not taken up.

8738M:
Hawker Hunter FGA9 XJ695 - Perished at Manston Fire school.
Photo of the aircraft at Manston fire school taken July 1998. Copyright Alan Allen.
8739M:
English Electric Canberra PR9 XH170 - On gate guard duty at RAF Wyton.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Wyton taken 13.04.2018. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
8740M:
English Electric Canberra PR3 WE173 - Cockpit section preserved on display at the Robertsbridge Aviation Collection.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF St Mawgan taken 23.03.1972. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the cockpit section on display at the Robertsbvridge Aviation Collection taken 15.10.2016. Copyright Rich Tregear.
8741M:
Not taken up.

8742M:
English Electric Canberra TT18 WH856 - Scrapped.

8743M:
Gloster Meteor NF11/12 WD790 - Cockpit section on display at the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum.
Photo of the aircraft at Greenham Common taken in July 1981. Copyright David Ilot.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF St Athan taken September 1985. Copright Irish251 - Flickr.
Photo of the cockpit section on display at the Boscombe Down Aviation collection aken 30.08.2020. Copyright Grahame Bann.

8744M:
Avro Vulcan B2 MMR XH563 - Cockpit section on display at Morayvia aviation collection.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Morayvia taken 12.05.2019. Copyright Wallace Shackleton.
8745M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XL392 - Perished in 1993.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Abingdon taken 16.09.1978. Copyright Fred Taylor.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Valley taken August 1985. Copyright Irish251 - Flickr.
8746M:
English Electric Canberra PR9 XH171 - On display at the RAF Museum Cosford.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the RAF Museum Cosford taken in 2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
8747M:
Allocated to Canberra WJ692 but was never built.

8748M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XL387 - Scrapped at RAF St Athan 02.06.1983.
Photo of the aircraft date and location unknown. Copyright RZF Digital Imaging and Publishing Company via tony_inkster Flickr.
Photo of the aircraft at El Toro Airforce base, California taken April 1977. Copyright Dan Stijovich.
8749M:

Avro Vulcan B2 MRR XH537 - Cockpit section on display at the Bournemouth Aviation Museum.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Abingdon taken May 1991. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the cockpit on display at the Bournemouth Avation Museum taken in 2018. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
8750M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XL388 - Cockpit section on display at Aeroventure, Doncaster.
Photo of the cockpit section on display at Aeroventure, Doncaster taken in 2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes
8751M:
Westland Weesex HAS3 XT255 - Scrapped in September 1996.
Photo of the helicopter at RAF Carlisle date unknown. Copyright Alan Allen.
8752M:
Westland Wessex HC2 XR509 - Scrapped at RAF Benson during December 1992.
Photo of the helicopter at RAF Finningley taken 30.07.1977. Copyright Ray Barber.
Photo of the helicopter at RAF Benson taken September 1985. Copyright Alan Allen.
8753M:
Avro Shackleton AEW2 WL795 - On display at Newquay Airport.
Photo of the aircraft at St Mawgan taken 03.03.2009. Copyright Richard A Flagg.
Photo of the aircraft at Newquay airport taken 25.04.2017. Copyright Chris England.
8754M:
Fairey Gannet T5 XG882 - Stored at Errol airfield, Scotland.
Photo of the aircraft at Errol airfield taken 20.10.2004. Copyright Wallace Shackleton.
8755M:
English Electric Canberra B2 WJ637 - Scrapped at RAF Cranwell during January 1996.

8756M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XL427 - Scrapped at R.A.F. Machrihanish, Scotland.
Photo of the aircraft at unknown location taken September 1973. Copyright Collection Eric Bannwarth.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Machrihanish, Scotland taken June 1994. Copyright John Tranter.
8757M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XM656 - Scrapped at RAF Cottesmore 30.03.1983.
Photo of the aircraft at Malta date unknown. Copyright Andre Farrugia.

Photo of the aircraft remains in the Hanningford metals scrapyard taken December 1991. Copyright Alan Allen.
8758M:

Avro Vulcan B2 XH562 - Perished at the Catterick fire school in November 1984.
Photo of the aircraft date and location not known. Copyright Ray Barber.
8759M:

Avro Vulcan B2 XL321 - Perished at Catterick fire school in 1987.

8760M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XL386 - Scrapped in 1994 at Manston.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Abingdon taken 15.06.1968. Copyright Caz Caswell.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Manston date unknown. Copyright Jack Hawkins.

8761M:
English Electric Canberra T17 WJ977 - Scrapped at RAF Wyton during March 1988.

8762M:
English Electric Canberra T17 WH740 - Aircraft on display at East Midlands Aeropark.
Photo of the aircraft on display at East Midlands Aeropark taken 30.06.2011. Copyright Stu Carr.
8763M:

English Electric Canberra T17 WH665 - Scrapped during 2006 at Filton airfield.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Biggin Hill taken 04.09.1976. Copyright Rob Finch.
Photo of the aircraft dumped at Filton taken 10.06.2006. Copyright Gary Morris.
8764M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP344 - Remains still at North Luffenham.
Photo of the helicopter at North Luffenham taken June 2002. Copyright Alan Allen.
8765M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XM647 - Scrapped at RAF Laarbruch 01.03.1985.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Greenham Common taken 01.06.1980. Copyright Ray Barber.
8766M:
Avro Vulcan B2 MMR XJ782 - Scrapped at RAF Finningley during June 1988.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Binbrook taken 03.09.1977. Copyright Steven Schofield.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Finningley taken 17.09.1983. Copyright Stephen Proctor.
8767M:
Scottish Avation Bulldog T1 XX635 - Sold to the USA as N635XX and based in Florida.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF St Athan date unknown. Copyright eLaReF.
8768M:
Not taken up.

8769M:
FMA Pucara A-528 - On display at the Flixton Aviation Museum, Suffolk.
Photo of the aircraft on display at Flixton taken 02.09.2019. Copyright Richard A Flagg.
8770M:
Hawker Hunter T7 XL623 - Under restoration at Dunsfold, Surrey.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Leuchars taken 17.09.1960. Copyright Jim Cain.
Photo of the aircraft on display in Woking, Surrey taken September 1996. Copyright Alan Allen.
8771M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XM602 - Nose section on display at the Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF St Athan taken September 1989. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the cockpit section on display at RIAT 2003, RAF Fairford. Copyright Grant Robinson.
8772M:
Avro Shackleton MR2 WR960 - On display at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Chivenor taken 05.08.1972. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry taken 06.12.2013. Copyright Stu Carr.
8773M:
Blackburn Buccaneer S2B XV156 - Perished on the fire dump at RAF St Athan.
Photo of the aircraft onboard HMS Victorious in Portsmouth date unknown. Copyright Keith Brooks.
Photo of the aircraft on the fire dump at RAF St Athan taken October 1991. Copyright Alan Allen.
8774M:
Blackburn Buccaneer S2A XV338 - Scrapped.
Photo of the aircraft at RNAS Yeovilton taken 09.09.1967. Copyright Ray Barber.
8775M:
Blackburn Buccaneer S2A XV354 - Perished at RAF Manston fire school during 1991.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Mildenhall taken during 1979. Copyright Glynn Evans.

 
8776M:
Blackburn Buccanneer S2A XV152 - Scrapped at RAF Swanton Morley in 1988.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Swanton Morley taken 01.06.1986. Copyright Paul Thallon.
8777M:
Vickers VC10 XX914 - Scrapped.
Photo of the aircraft as G-ATDJ taken at Gatwick 21.10.1967. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the aircraft location unknown taken in 1981. Copyright Garry Lakin.
Photo of the aircraft fuesalage at RAF Brize Norton taken 20.02.2013. Copyright Richard E Flagg.
 
8778M:
Avro Vulcan B2 XM598 - On display at the RAF Museum Cosford.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Cosford taken in 1991. Copyright Brian Bickers.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the RAF Museum Cosford taken 28.12.2018. Copyright Grahame Bann.
8779M:
Avro Vucan B2 XM607 - Aircraft on display at RAF Waddington.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Greenham Common taken 25.06.1977. Copyright eLaReF.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Waddington taken 29.06.2012. Copyright Stu Carr.
8780M:
English Electric Canberra T17 WK102 - Cockpit section privatly owned in Wales.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF St Mawgan taken 12.08.1981. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the cockpit section on display in Wales taken 10.06.2018. Copyright  Philip Cole.

8781M:
Slingsby Prefect TX1 WE982 - Stored for the RAF Museum.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Cardington taken May 1991. Copyright Alan Allen.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the RAF Museum Cosford taken 12.07.1992. Copyright Victor Vulcan - Flickr.
8782M:
English Electric Canberra PR9 XH136 - Cockpit section on display at Brenzett Aviation Museum.
Photo of the aircraft date and location unknown. Copyright Urs Baettig.
Photo of the cockpit section at Brenzett taken 29.09.2013. Copyright Richard A Flagg.
8783M:
Hawker Siddley Harrier T4 XW272 - Aircraft crashed 29.06.1982. Parts of the fuesalage used in a composite airframe on display at Aeroventure Doncaster.
Photo of the composite airframe on display at Aeroventure Doncaster taken 07.02.2018. Copyright Erwin Alexander.
8784M:
de Haviland Devon C2 VP976 - Scrapped at RAF Northolt during 1994.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Brawdy taken sometime in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Copyright Roger Winser.
Photo of the aircrat at RAF Notholt taken in 1988. Copyright Alan Allen.
8785M:
Hawker Siddley Andover C1 XS642 - Scrapped at RAF Benson during 1994.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Benson taken July 1993. Copyright Jon Wickenden.
8786M:
Hunting Jet Provost T3A XN495 - Cockpit section under restoration at the Wings Museum, Balcombe.

8787M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XD184 - Preserved on RAF Akatori, Cyprus.
Photo of the helicopter on display at RAF Akatori, Cyprus taken 16.03.2008. Copyright Stu Carr.
8788M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XJ437 - Scrapped by May 2009.
Photo of the helicopter at RAf Akatori, Cyprus taken 31.03.1987. Copyright Glyn Ramsden.
8789M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XK970 - Dumped in Bramley, Hampshire.
Photo of the helicopter at RAF Akatori, Cyprus taken in 1985. Copyright Robert Pittuck.
8790M:

Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XK986 - Scrapped at RAF Odiham.
Photo of the helicopter date and location unknown. Copyright David Whitworth.
8791M:

Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP329 - Dumped at Tattershall Lodge, Lincolnshire.
Photograph of the helicopter at Tattershall Lodge, Lincolnshire taken 18.07.2015. Copyright Stu Carr.
8792M:

Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP345 - On display at Aeroventure, Doncaster.
Photo of the helicopter on display at Aeroventure, Doncaster taken 23.03.2019. Copyright Oliver Holmes.
8793M:

Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP346 - Privatly owned and on display in Honeybourne, Warwickshire.
Photo of the helicopter at Plymouth taken 25.07.1970. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the helicopter at Manston airfield taken 02.06.2013. Copyright Richard A Flagg.
8794M:

Westland Whirlwind HAR10 XP398 - Previously on display at the Gatwaick Aviation Museum. Current location unknown.
Photo of the helicopter on display at the Gatwick Aviation Museum taken 22.04.2007. Copyright Richard A Flagg.
8795M:
de Haviland Devon C2 VP958 - Stored in Queensland, Australia.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Wyton taken 29.05.1982. Copyright Paul Thallon.
Photo of the aircraft at Mackay airport, Queensland, Australia registered as VH-EOB taken 24.11.2009. Copyright Roger Syratt.
8796M:
Westland Whirlwind HAR7 XK943 -  Scrapped at RAF Abindgon in February 1992.

8797M:
Panavia Tornado MRCA XX947 - On display a Baarlo, The Netherlands.
Photo of the aircraft landing at Farnborough taken 10.09.1978. Copyright Ray Barber.
Photo of the aircaft while on gate guard duty at Shoreham airport taken 06.05.2010. Copyright Paul Thallon.

Photo of the aircraft at Baarlo, Netherlands taken 07.03.2017. Copyright Alan Allen.
8798M:
Hawker Hunter FGA9 XG151 - Scrapped at RAF Lossiemouth 13.08.1985.
Photo of the aircraft at RAF Kemble taken 23.02.1977. Copyright Philip Pain.
8799M:
English Electric Canberra B2 WV787 - On display at Newark Air Museum.
Two photos of the aircraft at Greenham Common taken 26.06.1981. Copyright Chris England.
Photo of the aircraft on display at the Newark Air Museum taken 27.10.2009. Copyright Chris England.