Hunting Jet Provost T5P, XS230 / PAC/W/23907, Royal Air Force
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Registration: XS230
Construction Number: PAC/W/23907
Military Unit: Empire Test Pilots School
Model Hunting Jet Provost T5P
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: 19/03/2010
Photographed in the static display during Air Tournament International 92 at Boscombe. This JP was built as the penultimate T.Mk.4 for the RAF but was retained by BAC and was converted on the production line to become the prototype T.Mk.5. She first flew at Warton on the 28th February 1967 before being issued to the Empire Test Pilots School at Boscombe later that year. She remained at Boscombe for the next twenty-five years, making her last military flight on the 14th July 1993, before retirement in 1994. She was entered into the November 1994 Sothebys auction and was sold to Tom Moloney who registered her as G-BVWF basing her at North Weald. She was later re-registered G-VIVM. In 1996 Tom formed the Transair Jet Provost Duo with another JP G-BWEB (ex-XW422). She was then sold to Georgio Clementi operating out of Coventry and BAe Woodford before returning to North Weald in August 2000 and placed in store pending sale. She was bought by Ken Lyndon-Dykes in 2001 who continued to operate her from North Weald. She remains airworthy at the Essex aerodrome but is now under syndicate ownership.
Picture ID:1221459