Serial - XV165 C/n - B3-06-66 |
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30/09/1966 |
To Ministry of Aviation (MoA) 'Air Fleet', Hawker Siddeley, Holme-on-Spalding Moor (instrumented for stability trials) |
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| First Flown | 14/10/1966 |
Holme-on-Spalding Moor |
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| Date Delivered | 27/10/1966 |
To Royal Navy - 'Stability Investigation' |
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05/11/1966 |
To 'C' Sqn., A&AEE Boscombe Down - 'Catapulting Trials' |
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03/12/1966 |
To NASU Lossiemouth |
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02/02/1967 |
To Hawker Siddeley at 'C' Sqn., A&AEE Boscombe Down - 'Catapulting Trials' aboard HMS Hermes |
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21/02/1967 |
Naval Air Department (NAD) RAE Bedford - 'Night Launch' |
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05/04/1967 |
To NASU Lossiemouth |
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22/01/1968 |
Issued to 803 NAS, RNAS Lossiemouth - coded '610/LM' |
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29/10/1968 |
On loan to 800 NAS, RNAS Lossiemouth - coded '610/LM' |
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07/03/1969 |
On loan to 809 NAS, RNAS Lossiemouth - coded '610/LM' |
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05/05/1969 |
On loan to 801 NAS, RNAS Lossiemouth - coded '610/LM' |
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25/06/1969 |
To Hawker Siddeley, Brough for upgrade to S.Mk.2B standard |
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| First Flown | 19/03/1970 |
Holme-on-Spalding Moor - S.Mk.2B configuration |
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29/04/1970 |
To RNAY Sydenham, Belfast |
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| Date Delivered | 08/07/1970 |
To Royal Air Force |
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09/07/1970 |
Issued to 12 Sqn., RAF Honington |
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Feb. 1980 |
Buccaneer fleet grounded for six months following crash of XV345 at Nellis AFB, Nevada, USA during Exercise 'Red Flag 80' |
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03/11/1980 |
12 Sqn. re-located to RAF Lossiemouth |
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Apr. 1983 |
Operation Western Fox - NAS Key West, Florida Keys, USA 12 Sqn. 'Live Firing' exercise of 'TV' & 'AR' Martel missiles against redundant naval vessels. Participating Aircraft: XN976, XN983, XV165, XV168, XV333, XW530, XW542, XW547, XX894, XX900 |
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11/10/1985 |
12 Sqn., RAF Lossiemouth - coded 'BF' |
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21/03/1988 |
Transferred to 237 OCU, RAF Lossiemouth - coded '165' |
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| Date Received | 07/07/1988 |
To BAe Woodford - ASR1012 (Set No.028) Avionics Upgrade Programme (AUP) - 29wks cycle |
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| Date Delivered | 23/01/1989 |
'AUP' completed - returned to 'Operational Status' |
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24/01/1989 |
To 'Station Flight', RAF Lossiemouth |
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Feb.1989 |
Re-Issued to 237 OCU, RAF Lossiemouth - coded '165' |
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To No.27 MU RAF Shawbury store |
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Feb. 1994 |
Scrapped - Shawbury |
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Nose section preserved - G & D Aviation, FAST Museum, Farnborough. Current Position - On Display (date currency at 15/09/2003) |
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| Source - | Fleet Air Arm Fixed-Wing Aircraft since 1946 (Ray Sturtivant) Wings of Fame - volume 14 (Aerospace Publishing Ltd) Buccaneer: The story of the last all-British strike aircraft (Tim Laming) Hawker Siddeley/Blackburn Buccaneer (Paul Jackson & Peter Foster) (see Reference Library page for full details) Survivor's current position - The Blackburn Buccaneer Society |
Additional Info. - | R. Kelley: Airframe C/n NJ. Roberson (Historian, Buccaneer Aircrew Association) for information on: ASR1012 'Avionics Upgrade Programme' Airframe Bill Spidle: Participating Aircraft - Operation Western Fox, 1983 |