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Phantom front fuselage roadrunner

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Hendon Chipmunk
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Phantom front fuselage roadrunner

Post by Hendon Chipmunk » Sat May 18, 2019 9:10 am

Please can anyone identify a Phantom front fuselage / cockpit section seen on a trailer / low loader travelling westbound on the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon at approximately 6 pm on Friday 10th May 2019? It had RAF 74 Sqn markings and was, ahem, in need of restoration.

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Re: Phantom front fuselage roadrunner

Post by POL » Sat May 18, 2019 1:53 pm

XV490 perhaps?

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Re: Phantom front fuselage roadrunner

Post by tommc » Sat May 18, 2019 8:31 pm

Hendon Chipmunk wrote:
Sat May 18, 2019 9:10 am
Please can anyone identify a Phantom front fuselage / cockpit section seen on a trailer / low loader travelling westbound on the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon at approximately 6 pm on Friday 10th May 2019? It had RAF 74 Sqn markings and was, ahem, in need of restoration.
Likely to be XT907

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Re: Phantom front fuselage roadrunner

Post by Hendon Chipmunk » Sun May 19, 2019 11:50 am

Thanks EGVP, though it appears that XV490 is now in 92 Sqn colours (and restored). :thumbs:
https://www.planepictures.net/v3/show_en.php?id=1545291

Thanks tommc, the colour scheme and condition match Internet pictures of XT907. Does anyone know if she was dismantled for road transport or scrapped with just the cockpit section saved?

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Re: Phantom front fuselage roadrunner

Post by MRTT » Sun May 19, 2019 12:41 pm

Dismantled, has been at Bentwaters.

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Re: Phantom front fuselage roadrunner

Post by DeanW » Sun May 19, 2019 1:19 pm

Hendon Chipmunk wrote:
Sun May 19, 2019 11:50 am
Thanks tommc, the colour scheme and condition match Internet pictures of XT907. Does anyone know if she was dismantled for road transport or scrapped with just the cockpit section saved?
Not sure if the rest of the airframe is being scrapped but the cockpit section and tail were purchased by a buyer in the Midlands. The plan is for the cockpit section to become a simulator.

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Re: Phantom front fuselage roadrunner

Post by Hendon Chipmunk » Sun May 19, 2019 10:02 pm

Great knowledge on FC - thank you! Hope the new owner's simulator project is a success.

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