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Old 9th Feb 2015, 22:40
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Hucknall was also the graveyard for most of the RAF's Short Belfast transports
This could get moved to nostalgia if we're not careful.

I remember the Belfasts well. Aeritalia had an order to supply G222s to the Libyan Air Force, but the US wouldn't supply GE engines (they may have had a point). So the Tynes were stripped off the Belfasts, overhauled and put on the G222s. The rest of them got scrapped although Keith Sisson's Heavylift had a few that were used as support in the Falklands conflict.
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