Hercules Farewell

[rh226]

Perhaps also consider the claim of their other old bases of Thorney Island (where the type was introduced with 242OCU), Colerne (where they were serviced until 1976), Changi (48 Sqdn - the first operational squadron) and Cyprus (70 Sqdn). Though I don't know if the runways could now take them at the first two.

Incidentally, the introduction at RAF Thorney Island was 1 August 1967 - just three and a half months after I was there on a CCF camp. It was like a morgue then and the only aircraft to be seen were three Argosies (XN821/850/854) and a solitary piston Provost - which I did not get near to........but I did get a low level AEF flight in the SAR Whirlwind (XP349) - legs dangling out of the open hatch!!!

Regards,

Bob

[Pen Pusher]

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Brian

[Firefighter]

I was recently at Colerne for a BUAS Open Day and a Hercules landed on for a static display flown by a French exchange pilot, Hercs' have very rarely used Colerne since its closure! but I went there on Exercise Fast Buzzard!(5 Airborne)many moons ago (late 80's) which obviously used Hercs', we had to redeploy to Keevil for the second part of the exercise.

[Blackcat1]

Probably the same French exchange pilot that i saw piloting the last C130K i saw at Lyneham just before it closed?