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Cosford SoTT allocated codes 1988 - Gnat

Got a hole in an old log? Empty lines in your notebook? Request that missing serial here, hopefully someone can help. Requests over 6 months old only please.
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Cosford SoTT allocated codes 1988 - Gnat

Post by Sea_Harrier_FA2 » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:09 pm

Hi, working through my old logs from the 1988 airshow I realise I have an incomplete list of 2 SoTT (as they were) allocated codes. Of interest to me at the moment are the Gnats but no doubt I will work my way through the other types in the fullness of time. Noted during the 1988 airshow were:
Serial / Cosford Code / Squadron code (brackets denote not read off)
(XR537) / T / ex Red arrows
XR987 / S / ex Red Arrows
XS102 / (?) / 66
XS104 / (?) / 44
XS105 / V / 35
XS107 / U / ex Red Arrows

Also noted were another ex Red Arrows machine and two others coded P and Q. Wrecks and Relics 11 only has three other Gnats present so the quantity ties up:

XP514 ex Red Arrows and
XP533 / 63 and
XP538 / 61

1/ Does anyone know which way around XP533 and XP538 are relating to P and Q?
2/ Does anyone know the Cosford codes for XP514, XS102 and XS104, assuming they were allocated some?

Many thanks

Bob

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Re: Cosford SoTT allocated codes 1988 - Gnat

Post by Nighthawke » Tue Jul 06, 2021 4:47 pm

From Military Aircraft Markings 1989 book:

XP533/Q
XP538/P
XP514 no code given
XS102/66
XS104/44

Hope of use to you.

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Re: Cosford SoTT allocated codes 1988 - Gnat

Post by Sea_Harrier_FA2 » Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:25 pm

Thank you, hadn’t thought of the old MAM. I think mine are in a dark corner of the garage

Bob

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Re: Cosford SoTT allocated codes 1988 - Gnat

Post by Nighthawke » Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:22 pm

No problem. Just ask if you need anything. Someone is usually able to turn something up to help.

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Re: Cosford SoTT allocated codes 1988 - Gnat

Post by Sea_Harrier_FA2 » Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:38 am

Just found a list of disposals in BARG, page D974/89 which confirms P&Q but also adds a Cosford code for XS102 / H. So completeness...

XP514 / ? /ex Red Arrows
XP533 / Q / 63
XP538 / P / 61
XR537 / T / ex Red arrows
XR987 / S / ex Red Arrows
XS102 / H / 66
XS104 / ? / 44
XS105 / V / 35
XS107 / U / ex Red Arrows

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Re: Cosford SoTT allocated codes 1988 - Gnat

Post by Morseman » Wed Jul 07, 2021 8:00 am

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