• Aircraft:

  Hawker Siddeley Andover C.1PR

• Reg: XS596 photos
• Serial #:

  1574

• Airline: United Kingdom - Royal Air Force (RAF)
• Photo Date: Jul 13, 2006
• Uploaded: Jan 28, 2007
• Fairford Air Force Base - EGVA, United Kingdom

One of the last three Andover C.1s in the RAF, seen here arriving for RIAT some thirty years after the Air Support Command C.1 fleet was retired. In 2002, thirty-four states signed an Open Skies Agreement permitting aerial surveillance of their territories for arms control verification purposes. The aircraft used for such surveillance must be certified as suitable in accordance with the Agreement; this Andover fulfils the role for Britain. It is based at Boscombe Down.

Photographer

Aircraft

Thimo van Dijk XS596

1,234 2 0 Hawker Siddeley Andover C.1PR

Scan of an old slide

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Photo location

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Photographer

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