Jacko
St Athan, where no-one sighted them, or Punta Arenas, where Jon Snow (?, who didn't log the serials) and a Chilean spotter supposedly did....?
Yup, that's where the three airframes were in storage since May 82. They were moved to Wyton where, after a brief conversion course for the
Fuerza Aerea de Chile crews (supervised by 39 Sqn aircrews), they were flown out, in company with a Chliean Boeing 707, on 15 October 1982.
If Jon Snow didn't log the serials ask him why he missed them. As for your
Chilean spotter. . ., well. . . .
Ostensibly the 9s were to enhance the Chiliean
PR capability along their border with Argentina. One of the three was lost on 24 May 1983. As far as I can make out the other two are still flying.
