Looking Back (Film scans 1986) March 2025 Night Shoot

Newark Air Museum Winthorpe, Newark-on-Trent 1986, 2019 to 2025

Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.1 (XN964 'LM-630').

Left to right: Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.1 (XN964 'LM-630').

Left to right: Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.1 (XN964 'LM-630').

Left to right: Hawker Siddeley Sea Vixen FAW.2 (XJ560 '302').

Left to right: BAC Canberra T.19 (WH904).

Left to right: BAC Canberra B(I).8 (WV787). As photographed in 1986.

Handley Page Hastings T.5 (TG517)

Left to right: Handley Page Hastings T.5 (TG517). Based on the civilian Handley Page Hermes, it was designed to replace the Avro York as a troop-carrier and freight transport aircraft, at the time it was the largest transport aircraft supplied to the RAF. The first prototype flew in May 1946 and the initial C.1 entered RAF service in October 1948. In total 147 were delivered from 1948. Eight C.1s were converted to T.5s, providing radar training for bomb-aimers at the Bomber Command Bombing School from 1959. By 1968 the Hastings had left front-line service with the delivery of Hercules and Armstrong-Whitworth Argosy transports. The last few were not retired until 1977 including TG517. Only four complete aircraft survive today. TG517 as photographed in 1986.

Left to right: de Havilland DH.104 Dove Series 1B (G-AHRI) before its restoration.

Left to right: de Havilland DH.104 Dove Series 1B (G-AHRI) restored and repainted 4X-ARI from when it was with Avitur Airlines, Israel.

Left to right: de Havilland Heron 1B (G-ANXB).

Left to right: Cessna 310 (G-APNJ).

Avro Shackleton MR.3/3 (WR977 'B').

Left to right: Avro Shackleton MR.3/3 (WR977 'B'). As photographed in 1986.

Left to right: Fairey Gannet AEW.3 (XP226). As photographed in 1986.

Left to right: Avro Vulcan B.2 (XM594), under restoration in 2022. Completed by early 2025.

Left to right: BAC Lightning T.5 (XS417 'DZ').

Left to right: Hawker Hunter T.7 (XX467 '86').

Left to right: Hawker Hunter T.7 (XL605 previously XX467 '86'). In 1958 XL605 was with 92 Squadron and the Blue Diamonds display team. In 1966 it was delivered to the Royal Saudi Air Force and in 1968 was transferred to the Royal Jordanian Air Force. In 1974 the jet was returned to the RAF and refurbished at Dunsfold and given the new RAF serial XX467 serving with 229 OCU and the TWU. Reited in 1983 it was to be sold in 1997 and operated by Delta Jets as G-TVII. It was finally given to the Newark Air Museum in May 2017.

Left to right: SEPECAT Jaguar T.2A (XX829 'GZ').

Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (51-9036).

Left to right: Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (51-9036) repainted as '49-1007' 'TR-007' of 36th Fighter Wing when at Furstenfeldbruck Air Base, Germany 1951.

Left to right: Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (51-9036) repainted as '49-1007' 'TR-007'.

Left to right: Dassault Mystère IVA (83 '8-MS') ex Armée de l'Air. As photographed in 1986.

Left to right: North American F-100D Super Sabre (54-2223).

Left to right: North American F-100D Super Sabre (54-2223).

Left to right: Westland Wessex HC.2 (XV728 'A').

Left to right: Westland Lynx Mk.28 (QP-31).

Left to right: GAF Jindivik (A92-708) a radio controlled target drone crash landed on its 125th flight on the August 20, 1990, whilst being used for trials in the run up to the first Gulf War. Westland Puma HC.1 (XW208).

Left to right: Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG-27K 'Flogger' (61912507006 'Red 71'). It is a variable-sweep ground-attack aircraft.

Left to right: Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG-27K 'Flogger' (61912507006 'Red 71') after its 2022 repaint.

Left to right: Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG-27K 'Flogger' (61912507006 'Red 71').

Left to right: Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG-23ML (024003607 '458') before its repaint in 2024.

Left to right: Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG-23ML (024003607 now as 'Red 44') after its repaint in 2024.

Left to right: Gloster Meteor NF.14 (WS739). As photographed in 1986.

Left to right: Gloster Meteor T.7 (VZ634). As photographed in 1986.

Left to right: Gloster Meteor NF.12 (WS692 'C'). As photographed in 1986.

Left to right: Gloster Meteor FR.9 engine test-bed (VZ608). As photographed in 1986. Gloster Meteor F.8 (Prone) (WK935). This was the last of the 430 Meteor F.8s manufactured by Armstrong Whitworth at Bagington, Coventry. Following modifications to allow the pilot to flying the aircraft lying down in the prone position it took to the air for the first time in February 1954. The object of the exercise was to test the reduced effects of high G forces on the pilot when in the prone position. 14 flights were made from Bitteswell before it was transferred to the Institute of Medicine at Farnborough in August of that year. After a further 55 flights testing was completed by July 1955 and it was decided that the advantages of reduced effects of 'G' were out-weighed by the difficulties of flying the aircraft lying down. The test aircraft was put into storage after its final flight in 1959. It arrived at Cosford from RAF Colerne in 1977. In June 2024, WK935 arrived on loan from the Royal Air Force Museum.

Left to right: Hawker Hunter F.1 (WT651 'C').

Left to right: Gloster Javelin FAW.8 (XH992 'P'). The Javelin was the world's first twin-jet delta-wing fighter, designed to intercept bombers at high altitudes and at high subsonic speeds. XH992 was delivered to 85 Squadron in January 1960, it was the first FAW.8 to enter service with the RAF. Last flew in February 1964 it became 7829M with 27 MU at RAF Cosford. Transferred to Newark in 1981.

Left to right: BAC Canberra B(I).8 (WV787). As photographed in 1986. North American Harvard IIB (42-12417 ex FE930) in storage hopefully for restoration.

Left to right: British Aerospace Sea Harrier FA.2 (ZA176 'R-126').

Left to right: Hawker Siddeley Dominie T.1 (XS726 'T' 9273M).

Left to right: Folland Gnat T.1 (XR534 '65').

Left to right: Scottish Aviation Jetstream T.1 (XX492 'A').

Left to right: Scottish Aviation Bulldog T.1 (XX634).

Left to right: BAC Jet Provost T.3A (XM383 '90') with BAC Jet Provost T.3 (XN573 'E') nose only.

Left to right: Vickers Varsity T.1 (WF369 'F'). As photographed in 1986. DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 (WB624).

Percival Prentice T.1 (VR249 'FA-EL')

Left to right: Percival Prentice T.1 (VR249 'FA-EL').

Left to right: Percival Provost T.1 (WV606 'PB-F'), Avro Anson C.19 (VL348).

Left to right: Hawker Sea Hawk FB.3 (WM913 'J-456').

Left to right: de Havilland Venom NF.3 (WX905), de Havilland Vampire DH.115 T.11 (XD593), de Havilland DH.112 Sea Venom FAW.22 (WW217).

Left to right: Saab 91B Safir (56321 registered G-BKPY).

Left to right: Saab S-35XD Draken (AR-107) Danish Air Force. Saab AJSH 37 Viggen (37918 '21-57') Swedish Air Force.

Left to right: Saro Skeeter AOP.12 (XL764), Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 (XM685 'PO-513'). As photographed in 1973. Bristol Sycamore 3 (WT933).

Left to right: de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth (BAPC.21 marked 'G-MAZY').

Left to right: General Aircraft Monospar ST.12 (VH-UTH).

Left to right: Reid and Sigrist R.S.3 Desford (VZ728). The Desford prototype was originally registered G-AGOS. It first flew on 9 July 1945. Evaluated at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE) at RAF Boscombe Down as VZ728 as an advanced trainer powered by two 130 hp de Havilland Gipsy Major engines, it was not selected for production. By 1956 it returned to the civil register as G-AGOS and remained flyable until 1973. It was restored again to flying condition at Spanhoe and eventually flown the Newark in 2022.

Left to right: Taylor JT.1 Monoplane (G-APRT).

Left to right: Supermarine Swift FR.5 (WK277 'N'). By April 2025 it had been transferred to the South Wales Aviation Museum at St Athan after the loan agreement to the museum had been terminated.

Left to right: BAC Canberra PR.7 (WH791) until November 1998 it was the gate guard at RAF Cottesmore. WH791 has been on long term loan with us since 1998. In 2022 the museum declined the opportunity to purchase Canberra WH791 as they had assessed that they did not have the facilities and, or the skill-sets needed to undertake the work that is required to save the airframe that was badly coroded according to a survey taken. From April 2025 work started on braking up the airframe and its removal from the site.