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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 Honington (EGXH), UK - England

Photographer: Robin A Walker

Date Taken: 27/06/1974

Date Submitted: 06/04/2008

Note added by ABPIC: 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, 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.)

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