I could be wrong but didn't it go initially to RAE(B) as a research ship on the blind landing unit, then when Bedford was closed relocate to a museum somewhere?
Ahh, RAE those were the days. I still wear my RAE tie if I ever go to meeting at a Qinetiq site, just to see if it annoys any of the senior management. Sadly most of them now don't even recognise it.
Are we roughly contemporaries? I was down at Base Engineering about 1989 busy amongst other things redesigning chunks of Lynx 3 ZD285.
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