Originally Posted by
Pontius Navigator
GeeRam, I would have agreed though I believe it was said here that one was flying for a few years though not regularly.
I do know that one or two detached to RRE I believe were very low hours, less than 100, and it was hoped to keep them flying. A number of rivets were checked looking for crack propagation and none found. Then one more for luck and that was it. I believe they also found cracks in unused spars as well.
Of course...........aging memory cells are playing tricks on me. I should have remembered XD816 being used into the late 60's, as a young teen I had a 'thing' for the Valiant, and my uncle (ex-REME WO) had been at the 50th Anniversary event at Abingdon in '68 and made me jealous as he had said there was a white Valiant that had flown in for it, which was XD816.
And so have just found this
June 1968 at Abingdon
