Aircraft XN974 Photo

XN974, 1964 Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.2, C/N: B3-01-63
Being towed back to the static area by a vintage RAF tug after developing some sort of brake problem thus denying us all of the fast run it usually did!!
Photo Info
Photographer
glider Contact
Shot Date 2005-08-20
Airport EGYK
EGYK Airport
Upload Date 2012-02-13
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Software Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
Dimensions 1024 × 798
Date Taken 2012-02-13 13:22:56
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XN974 @ X4EV - In 1965 XN974 went to the USA for hot weather testing and achieved a record on its return flight from Goose Bay to Lossiemouth by becoming the first Fleet Air Arm aircraft to fly the transatlantic route non-stop without refuelling. - by Chris Hall
Chris Hall
@ X4EV
XN974 @ EGYK - Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2 at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, UK in 1991.. - by Malcolm Clarke
Malcolm Clarke
@ EGYK
XN974 @ X4EV - Buccaneer XN974 was the first production S.2 aircraft, making its first flight from the British Aerospace airfield at Holme-on-Spalding Moor on 5 June 1964. It went straight to the Royal Aeronautical Establishment, Bedford - by Chris Hall
Chris Hall
@ X4EV
XN974 @ EGYK - On display at the Yorkshire Aviation Museum, Elvington, EGYK - by Clive Pattle
Clive Pattle
@ EGYK
XN974 - Blackburn (Hawker Siddeley) Buccaneer S2 at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington - by Ingo Warnecke
Ingo Warnecke