G-AVDB, a C310L with redesigned wing-tip tanks that may have improved lateral stability, arrived in Jan/Feb 1967. Perhaps it was also on the fleet in 1973?
I left the RAF in July, 1974 and went to Perth to obtain the Instrument Rating to complete my application for the ATPL. At that time the 310 fleet was something of a mixed bag, with little or nothing by way of standardisation of aircraft or equipment. At that time the fleet comprised (IIRC):-
GARBC (310 D)
GARCI (310 D)
GAROK (310 F)*
GAVDB (310 L)
GAVUV (310 N)
GAYGB (310 Q)
*This was the aircraft in which Hughie Green had his encounter with Soviet Migs in the Berlin corridor; it was a bit cranky to handle and we wondered whether overstressing the flaps in that confrontation had something to answer for.
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