WR963 MR 2/AEW.2 – A HISTORY
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First flown 11.03.54 and awaited collection 31.03.54. To 38MU 08.04.54 for storage.
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Allocated to 224 Sqn, and delivered to Gibraltar on 05.10.54. Coded B.
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‘Special fitment ’installations made in February, June and July in 1955.
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Flown to 49MU Colerne 28.09.56 for additional modifications. Completed 11.10.56. WR963 returned to Gibraltar. Recorded M in 1956.
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Further modifications 19.10.57 to 11.11.57.
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Returned to AVRO on 09.03.59 for Phase I modernisation and completed 18.02.60.
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Allocated to 210 Sqn 23.02.60 and coded Z.
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Allocated to DH Chester (Hawarden) 15.03.61 for Phase II update. Completed 16.11.61.
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Delivered to 38 Sqn 23.11.61 and coded X.
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Allocated to 205 Sqn 14.01.66 and coded A.
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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.
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Returned To UK to 5MU 17.12.70 for storage until delivered to HAS at Bitteswell 30.06.71 for AEW.2 conversion.
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Returned to 5MU 02.06.72 for repainting.
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Delivered to Lossiemouth 18.07.72 for AEW radar installation and allocated to 8 Sqn the following day.
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Transferred to Kinloss 01.08.72 where named ‘Ermintrude’.
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Returned to Lossiemouth with unit 16.08.73. Renamed ‘Parsley’.
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Flown to 60MU for modification 10 to 19.03.75 and HAS Bitteswell 01.03.76 for major servicing and wing re-spar.
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Returned to 8 Sqn 13.05.77 Cat.3 damage sustained 10.08.79. Repaired by HSA contractors working party.
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WR963 returning to 8 Sqn charge 29.10.79. Hours flown 14,957 hours at 09.03.89
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Privately purchased and transferred to Coventry Airport 1991 at the end of it’s service career.