There used to be a Taranto Night dinner at Farnborough when there was still an RAF Officers Mess. I still have a set of place mats used at the last one.
Some years the RNHF Swordfish attended; it was hauled up onto the OM lawn through a gap in the fence. One year, presumably as a 'thank you', it stayed for several weeks, eventually emerging from 'A' Shed with a new set of wings. They had been re-covered in Farnborough's fabric shop - I'd seen them through the window some weeks previously.