Interviews with the team of the Shackleton Preservation Trust together with engine ground run to return Avro Shackleton WR963 to flight.
Aviation profiles and/or "roughs"by artist William (Bill) Robertshaw: Avro Shackleton M.R. Mk IA. WG 529. Annotated profile. Original artwork is a 1/48 scale plan.
First flown 11.03.54 and awaited collection 31.03.54. To 38MU 08.04.54 for storage. Allocated to 224 Sqn, and delivered to Gibraltar on 05.10.54. Coded B. ‘Special fitment ’installations made in February, June and July in 1955. Flown to 49MU Colerne 28.09.56 for additional modifications. Completed 11.10.56. WR963 returned to Gibraltar. Recorded M in 1956. Further modifications 19.10.57 to 11.11.57. Returned to AVRO on 09.03.59 for Phase I modernisation and completed 18.02.60. Allocated to 210 Sqn 23.02.60 and coded Z. Allocated to DH Chester (Hawarden) 15.03.61 for Phase II update. Completed 16.11.61. Delivered to 38 Sqn 23.11.61 and coded X. Allocated to 205 Sqn 14.01.66 and coded A. Returned to Hawker Siddeley Aviation (HSA), Langar in August 1966 for Phase III modification. Completed 19.07.67. Returned to 205 Sqn. 01.08.67 and coded H. Returned To UK to 5MU 17.12.70 for storage until delivered to HAS at Bitteswell 30.06.71 for AEW.2 conversion. Returned to 5MU 02.06.72 for repainting. Delivered to Lossiemouth 18.07.72 for AEW radar installation and allocated to 8 Sqn the following day. Transferred to Kinloss 01.08.72 where named ‘Ermintrude’. Returned to Lossiemouth with unit 16.08.73. Renamed ‘Parsley’. Flown to 60MU for modification 10 to 19.03.75 and HAS Bitteswell 01.03.76 for major servicing and wing re-spar. Returned to 8 Sqn 13.05.77 Cat.3 damage sustained 10.08.79. Repaired by HSA contractors working party. WR963 returning to 8 Sqn charge 29.10.79. Hours flown 14,957 hours at 09.03.89 Privately purchased and transferred to Coventry Airport 1991 at the end of it’s service career.
Avro Shackleton AEW.2 WL790 J 8 Squadron RAF Lossiemouth TVS Air Show South Bournemouth Hurn 19 August 1984
Avro Shackleton AEW Maritime Patrol
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1957. Note the Springbok Roundels, unique to 1716 and 1717 before the introduction of the 'Castles' Courtesy of the Ron Belling Art Trust, Ron Belling and Louis Vosloo
27 June 1981 - Avro Shackleton AEW2 of 8 Sqn - display at RAF Greenham Common
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Airfix 1:72 Avro Shackleton MR.2, by Frank Reynolds
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Aviation History and Nostalgia - Avro Shackleton on M25 today. Where from and to? - XS587 Sea Vixen will not be going anywhere, it is a core component of the collection and will in time be restored to running condition. Some work has been carried out in the past couple of years on treating corrosion. We are hoping that
An Avro Shackleton MR2 WL759 of No 38 Squadron takes off in support of NATO Exercise 'Medflex Invicta'.
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4 x Rolls Royce (Packard) Merlin 28 engined Avro Lancaster B. MK. III. Serial Number ED549. Aircraft served with No. 100 Squadron, until burned out on the 5th March 1943.
C/n R3/696/239009 built in 1953 as MR2 to RAF marked WL790, in 1971 converted to AEW2 (Airborne Early Warning aircraft), in 1994 registered N790WL. In Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 17. October 2017
