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Old 31st Jul 2015, 09:29
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Lordflasheart
 
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Fleet Air Arm Grumman Avengers

Those must have been the very last RN Avengers, as they went out of service in 1957.
The last-but-one did a wheels up at Fairwood Common sometime in 1960 and the very last one (in front-line RN service) was still going strong as an airborne ECM classroom in 1961 - 831 Squadron Culdrose. It was later shipped off to Abbotsinch where it was allegedly discovered to have been in danger of undercarriage collapse for a while. That it didn't was obviously due to JB and BW etc doing greasy landings. I believe one or either of these Chuffs eventually went into UK civilian ownership. .... LFH

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