Originally Posted by
reds & greens
If memory serves, we still had a mixed line of JP 3 and 5 at Scampton CFS in the late 80s, alongside the Bulldog and Tucano introduction.
Yep, I left the waterfront at Scampton in April 89 and the 3As and 5As were very much still on the line…AFAIR at that time the Bulldog was very much there. Really can’t recall if we’d seen much if anything of the Tucano at that point in the year…maybe standards had got their hands on the first airframes but I can’t remember for sure.
Going further back in time and back to Cranwell in the late 70s -I may be wildly wrong but I thought the advent of the first non GE flying courses to Sleaford Tech in ?78, maybe early 79, saw the return of at least a few 3As to the line…