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Old 12th Apr 2004, 10:40
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teeteringhead

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Excellent news!! Fine boys they are at LL, and an entirely appropriate resting place for the Queen (Mother) of the Skies ... must scour the logbooks to see how many of my 3000-ish Wessi hours are on 517...... it's one of the first batch delivered IIRC (first being XR 498?), so was probably on 18 Sqn too in the late 60s ....

Later... Just checked roughly ... first flew 517 on 72 Sqn (Odiham) in 1971, flew her in NI later that year .... last flew her on 60 Sqn in 1993 .... seems to have been at Strawberry in the mid-to-late 80s also .... blimey! there goes my anonymity!!
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