Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2 XV232
Nimrod Preservation Group
Coventry, Bagington airport
January 2023 to January 2025
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From the Nimrod Preservation Group website: XV232 was first delivered to RAF St Mawgan in 1970. Her primary roles were defined as a Submarine hunter and Search and Rescue aircraft. She served her country from RAF Luqa in Malta and RAF Kinloss in Scotland until 2010.
Nimrod XV232 landed at Coventry airport on May 11, 2010 following a delivery flight from RAF Kinloss in Scotland. A veteran of the Falklands War, XV232 in 1982 set a distance record for a reconnaissance flight that has yet to be beaten. Supported by in-flight refuelling assets, the aircraft covered 8,453 miles (13,609km) in 18 hours and 50 minutes while monitoring the South Atlantic for Argentinian naval activity.
Throughout 2024 the Group continued with engine-run events for fund raising hopefully on the third Saturday of most months. They continue to look for additional ways to raise funds, including a GoFundMe page. |
| Hawker Siddeley (later BAE Systems) Nimrod MR.2 (XV232) with the Nimrod Preservation Group. |
| Left to right: Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2 (XV232) with the Nimrod Preservation Group was also engine running today. |
| Left to right: For a small fee on the day of an engine run in July 2024, I was inside Nimrod MR.2 (XV232) with the Nimrod Preservation Group. |
| Left to right: A lonely looking Nimrod during the weekend January 2025 the nearby Avro Shackleton left by road bound for Elvington and the Yorkshire Air Museum (see report). |
| BAE Systems Nimrod MR.2 (XV232) in the setting sun in 2011. |
Left to right: BAE Systems Nimrod MR.2 (XV232) during a night-shoot 2010.
Nimrod MR.2 (XV232) displaying at the May 1993 Mildenhall Air Fete. |
