Hunting Jet Provost T5A, XW369 / EEP/JP/1019, Royal Air Force
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Registration: XW369
Construction Number: EEP/JP/1019
Code Number: 69
Military Unit: 1 FTS
Model Hunting Jet Provost T5A
Operator: Royal Air Force
Airport: Boscombe Down (EGD / EGDM), UK - England
Airshow: Boscombe Down - Air Tournament International - 1992
Photographer: Martin Laycock
Date Taken: 13/06/1992
Date Submitted: 27/02/2010
Photographed in the twilight of her RAF career in the static display at Air Tournament International 92 at Boscombe. This Jet Provost was operated by 1 Flying Training School at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, and was delivered to the RAF on the 4th June 1971. The Mk 5 differed from earlier variants in having a pressurised cockpit and being equipped with the more powerful Armstrong Siddeley Viper Mk-202 turbojet, 110 Mk5s were built, 94 were later converted to this, the definitive T5A standard with improved avionics. The 1 FTS Jet Provosts started to be replaced by the Shorts Tucano in 1992, the first one arriving on the 1st April, with the change over being completed by mid-1993. After being retired from service she was sold to the USA and was registered to David Weininger of Santa Fe, New Mexico, as N800LT.
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