Blackburn Buccaneer S2, XV360 / B3-10-67, Royal Air Force
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Registration: XV360
Construction Number: B3-10-67
Military Unit: 237 OCU
Model Blackburn Buccaneer S2
Operator: Royal Air Force
Airport: RAF St Mawgan / Newquay (NQY / EGDG), UK - England
Airshow: St Mawgan - International Air Day - 1974
Photographer: Chris England
Date Taken: 06/08/1974
Date Submitted: 08/02/2011
Arriving for the following days International Air Day. Crashed into the sea off Waveney, Suffolk, on 29-7-75 following loss of control, both crew ejected safely. (N.B. Fred Hempsall was 237 OCU's Line Controller and confirms that this was one of three S2s that retained catapult launch and arrester equipment (clearly visible in my photograph), which was used with RAE Bedford's land based catapult. If XV360 was converted to S2A (losing the arrester hook etc) it would have been done after 1980, when Fred left 12 Squadron.)
Picture ID:1275227