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Tornados Return to RAF Honington

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Snoop 95
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Tornados Return to RAF Honington

Post by Snoop 95 » Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:25 pm

The EADT reports that five reitred RAF Tornados have been delivered to Honington:
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/tornados-ba ... -1-6144589
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Re: Tornados Return to RAF Honington

Post by Vulcanone » Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:51 pm

Except 1 arrived last year, the other 4 within the last month
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Re: Tornados Return to RAF Honington

Post by tm74sqn » Fri Jul 05, 2019 8:19 pm

Interesting. Any dates of arrival and id's known?
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Re: Tornados Return to RAF Honington

Post by reaper493 » Fri Jul 05, 2019 9:14 pm

The photo shows the camo special and za587.

I'm sure someone out there will know the others.

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Re: Tornados Return to RAF Honington

Post by F4JPhantomII » Fri Jul 05, 2019 9:19 pm

Looking at Demobbed http://www.demobbed.org.uk/locations.php?location=1641, the Tornados at Honington are: ZA553, ZA587, ZA613, ZD744 and ZG752. ZD711 was also there at some point but apparently hasn't been sighted since April 2018.
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Re: Tornados Return to RAF Honington

Post by Vulcanone » Fri Jul 05, 2019 9:26 pm

Its probably in one of the HAS somewhere. The Honington Facebook page has stuff on it with 711 before the final retirements
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Re: Tornados Return to RAF Honington

Post by XM192 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:36 pm

F4JPhantomII wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 05, 2019 9:19 pm
 Looking at Demobbed http://www.demobbed.org.uk/locations.php?location=1641, the Tornados at Honington are: ZA553, ZA587, ZA613, ZD744 and ZG752. ZD711 was also there at some point but apparently hasn't been sighted since April 2018.
ZD744 isn't at Honington.
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