• Aircraft:

  Avro Shackleton MR.3

• Reg: XF708 photos
• Serial #:

• Airline: United Kingdom - Royal Air Force (RAF)
• Photo Date: Jan 22, 2015
• Uploaded: Jun 18, 2016
• Duxford - EGSU, United Kingdom

XF708 is currently in storage awaiting space in the restoration hangar. You can see all the bits of the aircraft that has been removed. XF708 served with No. 201 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command, from 1959 to 1964. It then joined No. 120 Squadron. From 1968 to 1972 it served with No. 203 Squadron. It was based first in Northern Ireland, and then from 1969 to 1972 at RAF Luqa in Malta. It was aquired by the IWM and flew to Duxford on 22 August 1972. By then, the aircraft had flown over 6,500 hours and made nearly 2,500 landings

Photographer

Aircraft

Part of the outside display at Duxford,scanned from a photo

Michael Eaton XF708

2,238 0 0 Avro Shackleton MR.3

Przemyslaw Burdzinski XF708

2,024 0 0 Avro Shackleton MR.3

Aw Stam XF708

2,024 0 0 Avro Shackleton MR.3

Photo location

Imperial War Museum Duxford

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Photographer

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