A wee bit of background, back in the day VASS was based in half of 4 hangar and the VASS pan was between 3 and 4 hangars. I was a ground equipment electrician and our section shared the other half of 4 hangar at the time, so I got to see a lot of visiting aircraft, so in between photographing airyplanes I did the odd bit of electrical work.
I'll stick with posting the RAF aircraft for now, these are in order of registration numbers. Again, info is from what I had written on the back so apologies for any errors. The dates are good, though I don't appear to have the dates for any of the Whirlwinds.
XM705-10-T1-4-FTS-770809
XN643-26-T4-770721
XN817-817-C1-BOSC-770808
XN938-S1-12-SQN-780223
XP299-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT
XP352-HAR10-202-D-FLT
XP353-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT
XP361-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT.
XP532-35 XR535-05 4 FTS-770506
XP540-40 XR504-04 4 FTS-770810
XP542-42-T1-4-FTS-770809
XR457-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT
XR541-61-T1-CFS-770809
XR769-B F6 11-SQN-780508
XR769-B F6 11-SQN-780508
XS104-44-T1-4-FTS-770809
XS105-35-XR574-24-T1-4-FTS
XS235 4C-RAE-770809
XS603 E3-115-SQN-780207
XS639 E3-115-SQN-770503
XS641 E3-115-SQN-770713
XS675-HAR2-22-SQN-780221
XS765-CC2-ETPS-780329
XS929-E F6 11-SQN-780508
XS929-E F6 11-SQN-780508
XT278-S2A-208-SQN-770706
XT892-D FGR2 111-SQN-780331
XV156-S2A-208-SQN-770706
XV221-221-C1-780307
XV354-S2-A-208-SQN-770704
We still had some desert cammed aircraft back then, but it wouldn't be long before those schemes went. Lightnings were very rare visitors when I was there. For the Phantom lovers XT892 is the first Toom to make an appearance in this series of posts, but all the XV reggied Tooms I have will be first up in part 3.
