Hawker Siddeley Hawk T1A, XX318 / 312143, Royal Air Force
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Registration: XX318
Construction Number: 312143
Military Unit: 234(R) Squadron
Model Hawker Siddeley Hawk T1A
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: 20/03/2010
Photographed in the static display during Air Tournament International 92 at Boscombe. This Hawk was delivered to the RAF on the 24th September 1980. When this photograph was taken she was allocated to 234 (Reserve) Squadron, part of No. 1 TWU (Tactical Weapons Unit) based at RAF Brawdy in Wales, No.1 TWU would disband later this year on the 31st August 1992. She wears special 75th Anniversary markings, the Welsh Dragon is appropriate, not only because of her home station, but because the squadron's badge depicts a dragon rampant with flames issuing from its mouth, the squadron motto being - Ignem mortemque despuimus - 'We spit fire and death'.
Picture ID:1221561