PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Short Belfast-why?
View Single Post
Old 10th Jan 2014, 13:28
  #100 (permalink)  
Blackboxchanger
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Ipswich
Age: 83
Posts: 2
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Short Belfast

Wikipedia lists all the Belfasts built for the RAF by name, but I have a photo of myself alongside a Belfast that is not listed. In 1966 I was serving in the VASF (Visiting Aircraft Servicing Flight) at RAF Khormaksar, where one of those visiting aircraft was a Belfast named 'BELFAST'. That name is not listed as being one of the RAF aircraft and, although it appears to be in RAF Transport Command livery I am not certain it had an RAF registration. It was probably transiting to Gan/Changi, so was this aircraft on a proving flight and was it subsequently renamed or was it separate from the ten RAF aircraft?
Blackboxchanger is offline