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Hunter ground attack! From a painting commissioned by 43 Sqn pilot, Roger Wilkins (Roger Wilkins)
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XG296-A, Khormaksar in 1963. (author)
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OC 43 Squadron's aircraft, XE546-B at Khormaksar in 1963. (author)
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XE550-C, Khormaksar in 1963. (author)
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XJ684-D heads a line-up of 43 Sqn aircraft at Khormaksar in 1963. (author)
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XJ680-F, Khormaksar in 1963. (author)
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XG136-G seen on the Khormaksar pan in 1963. (author)
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Photographed during a stopover at Masirah, en-route Ksar-Bahrain, is XE623-H. Beverley XH123 was en-route Bahrain-Ksar with 8 Sqn airmen. (author)
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XE611-J at Khormaksar in 1963. (author)
Converted to F.58A, J-4103, for Swiss Air Force in 1972. Sold to Dan Lavigna in the USA in 1995 and registered N4103Y. |
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XJ692-K on the pan at Khormaksar in 1964. (author)
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Taxiing out at Bahrain in 1963, XJ684-'L' is outbound for Khormaksar with Jock McVie at the controls. (author)
The aircraft is carrying markings of both 8 and 43 Sqns on account that the front half is the real XJ684 its rear end having been removed after damage by fire in a landing incident. The rear end is from an 8 Sqn Hunter that was long term AOG. Mating them together produced one airworthy Hunter. |
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XJ683-L, Khormaksar in 1963. (author)
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Parked on the east end of the Khormaksar pan in 1964 is XE655-L. (author)
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XF456-P at Khormaksar in 1964. (author)
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XK137-P at Khormaksar in 1963. (author)
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Bearing the marking of 8 and 43 Sqns, FGA.9, XF388-F, taxies out passed the control tower for a sortie along the Yemen border, 1967 (Malcolm Stelfox)
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Rocket-armed XE530-O was the mount of Roger Wilkins for a period and is seen in the markings of 8/43 Sqns at Khormaksar in 1965 (Roger Wilkins)
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XG298-J in the joint 8/43 Squadron markings employed from 1964 to 1967 (Ken Simpson)
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