shortest service life
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Gull Winged Prentice in 1956
I have to ask whether the Prentice remained in service ( of some sort ) as late as the summer of 1956 - I had my first air experience flight in the back of a Prentice at RAF Feltwell ( Piston Provosts based there for ab initio training) - I was an ATC cadet on my first summer camp - I was born in 1943 and I'm pretty certain I was 13 at the time - you couldn't join the ATC below 13 - pretty sure of that - so it was still being used in 1956 although probably flown by RAFVR pilots - all I can remember is all these big black boxes in the back with all the coloured rotary dials - I think our Flight Sergeant got a Provost flight - wow
