Originally Posted by
ExAscoteer2
When I got to Lyneham there were 61 airframes. Four had been lost: Fairford (XV180), Pisa (XV216), Tromsų (XV194), and Colerne (XV198).
Snoopy (XV208) was at Farnborough.
As far as I recall, Snoopy arrived at Farnborough either just before or just after the '74 airshow. I was posted in at the beginning of March that year but the main runway was being re-surfaced and this didn't finish until early August '74 although some aircraft operated off the subsidiary runways including a Comet 4 departure from runway 30; they pushed it back with a tug to get maximum TORA and a watching Andover pilot remarked 'some of us go forwards to take off'.