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Post by **jaybee** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:36 pm

Which squadron would have the tailcode A4 on an F3? please...

Post by **Agent K** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:47 pm

Assuming you mean Tornado F3 the A codes were the OCU (229) later 56(R) squadron.

Post by **jaybee** » Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:27 pm

Agent K... Many thanks for the quick response/reply to the question. Yes it was F3 related....cheers ...

Post by **jakdaw** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 7:49 am

During the early 1990s 229OCU/65sqd (at Coningsby) ran out of letters (AA-AZ) so used numbers following the A for a while I have ZE794 carrying A4. Don't know if all the numbers were used but I logged A2, A4, A5, A7, A8. If only the OCU now had over 30 airframes, damn simulators!!

Post by **Agent K** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 8:27 am

Of course as jakdaw says, 65 was the first shadow squadron, then it later became 56, and yes once they'd used AA - AZ up during the build up, they then went A1 +++

Post by **PaulN** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 11:34 am

Here is a picture of A4 I took at Lossiemouth in 1993....very anonymous apart from the code can understand the OP's question

Cheers

Paul

Post by **Nighthawke** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:19 pm

It was ZE794 at Coningsby in September 1991

Post by **jaybee** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:21 pm

Many thanks for supplying all the information. It was really helpful to me and someone who follows me on my twitter link, who asked the question to me on it..cheers...

https://twitter.com/johnbilcliffe Its in the F3 lookback tweet cheers

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