A few Buccaneer airframes were limited to 5g rather than the normal 6g although I cannot remember the reason why. With fuel in the underwing tanks the limit was 3g.
With respect to the Hunters that we flew during early 1980 while the fleet was grounded, a few were F6As which came from Brawdy but most were the ex-Valley F6s and T7s that had been in storage at Kemble for around 18 months. I finished the OCU 3 days before the tragic accident at Nellis. Luckily, I knew the UPT at Kemble and managed to go there helping with airtesting and delivering the Hunters to Honington and Laarbruch. What could have been a disasterous start to my first tour was actually great fun! I think that we had to hand back the last of the single-seaters in September but many of the T7s and T8Cs stayed within the force. The OCU kept the IFIS T7As and T8Bs and on 208 we kept 2 T7s which were great for bouncing etc.