PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - LUTON History and Nostalgia
View Single Post
Old 15th Feb 2016, 07:19
  #1199 (permalink)  
vintage ATCO
aceatco, retired
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: one airshow or another
Posts: 1,431
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post


This one, LTNman? I wasn't aware there was a compass base here. Pic around 1959. The fence of the old spectators enclosure in the background.

c/n PAC/84/013 a T.2 and was allocated G-APVF but NTU. G-23-1 was exhib at Farnborough 9.56 and was converted to a T.3 and fitted with an ASV.9 engine by 8.58. It was airfreighted in a Beverley with Gnat XN122 to Khormaksar 5.7.58 and became XN117 to cover live firing trials. It did a demo tour in India and Pakistan 8.58 and airfreighted to the UK 7.10.58. Shipped to Australia 1959 for evaluation by RAAF as A99-002 and assembled at Bankstown by DHA. Believed scrapped in Australia.

Credit: BAE Systems Heritage Centre Warton-Percival/Hunting Photo Archive
vintage ATCO is offline