Originally Posted by
Herod View Post
There is a Britannia painted up as XM497 "
Schedar" at the RAF Museum, Cosford. It is purely representative though, being in reality G-AOVF, originally a BOAC aircraft. Sadly it seems the real "
Schedar" was broken up at Stansted in 1977.
The above was a perfect excuse for me to spend a few minutes hunting some pictures of XM497 at Stansted. I knew that I had taken some but it was in 1980.
Firstly, she is shown minus engines being prepared for the Fire Training ground and secondly the following year after she had already suffered some "slight" fire damage.
QP
May 1980.
13 April 1981
13 April 1981