"Our Mirage IVA 45/BR (Bravo Romeo) flew for the first time on May 6th, 1966, with crew Elie Buge (pilot 1923-1967, first non-commissioned officer to cross the sound barrier) and Jean Cuny. Delivered to the French Air Force on June 3rd, 1966, Bravo Romeo completed 6,309 hours of flying and 2,975 landings. It left active duty and made its last flight on September 11th, 1991 before joining the Châteaudun base. It was then exhibited at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris from March 1995 to January 2009 before returning to Châteaudun."
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"The last ever Buccaneer to take off from an aircraft career, XV168, which made its last flight back to the birth place at Brough. The aircraft was put on display and became a memorial to the test pilots who lost their lives in the development of the Buccaneer. In 2013, XV168 was donated by BAE to the Yorkshire Air Museum and was road moved by August with the help of TBAG where it joined XN974 and XX901.
XV168 is currently being restored by a small number of volunteers and can be seen on display outside."
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"Retired to St Athan in 1994, XX901 was sold to the Buccaneer Aircrew Association who moved it to Kemble Airfield for storage before transporting it to Yorkshire Air Museum in the late 1990’s. The airframe soon received a repaint back into it’s desert pink colours and was put on static display along side XN974 and was later joined by XV168.
XX901 can be seen on display at the museum either outside or in the hangar."
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-24/11/2023
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"The Lightning F.6 was a single-seat, twin-engined, fighter interceptor, of all-metal stressed-skin construction, powered by Rolls-Royce Avon turbojets with re-heat. Its initial rate of climb was a colossal 50,000 feet per minute. Its service ceiling was 60,000 feet and its maximum speed Mach 2.27 at 40,000 feet. Its range, with ventral tanks, was 800 miles.
XS903 was built at Salmesbury and made its first flight on 17 August 1966 and joined 5 Squadron at Binbrook. It made a nosewheel-up landing at Coningsby on 14 September 1979. Following various spells with 11 Squadron, or in store, XS903 returned to 5 Squadron to go to Akrotiri in Cyprus. By July 1987, it was back with 11 Squadron and it lost a part of its rudder in flight and had to make an emergency landing on 4 August of that year.
The Lightning was flown to Elvington for preservation on 18 May 1988, by Wing Commander ‘Jake’ Jarron, Commanding Officer of 11 Squadron."
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"The CL-30, later designated CT-133, was a tandem two-seat, armed trainer version of the F80 ‘Shooting Star’, powered by a Rolls Royce Nene 10 turbojet, delivering 5,400 lb thrust. Armament consisted of two nose-mounted 12.7 mm (0.5 in) machine-guns plus various light bombs, rockets and machine-gun pods. It had a service ceiling of 48,000 feet, a maximum speed of 600 mph at sea level and a cruising speed of 455 mph. The normal range was 1,025 miles and the maximum range was 1,275 miles.
The aircraft was one of 636 jet trainers built under licence by Canadair for the Royal Canadian Air Force, from 1952. The type was known in Canada as the ‘Silver Star’. It was used as an instrument flight trainer whilst in service with the Canadian forces in Germany.
The Museum’s aircraft was mounted as a gate guard at Baden Soellingen, West Germany. It was presented to the Museum on behalf of the Museum’s Canadian Branch in August 1993."
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