G-BYHL in No.7 Air Experience Flight colours. The Flight formed 8 September 1958 at RAF Newton and remained there until the closure of the station. No.7 AEF is now part of 6 FTS located at RAF Cranwell and equipped with Tutor T.1s.
Shackleton MR.3/Phase 3 XF708 was delivered new to No.203 Squadron at RAF Ballykelly on 6 February 1967 and served with this unit from RAF Luqa until her retirement. XF708 was flown to IWM Duxford on 22 August 1972.
F-AZZU taking-off to join the Flying Legends 2009 Balbo. The B-25 came to grief on 31st May 2011, in a forced landing in a field close to her base at Melun-Villaroche after the starboard engine caught fire.
Seen here on the Duxford turf a month before ‘Grumpy’ would cross the Atlantic on 29 August 2009, bound for Seattle, Washington State. She represents Mitchell III HD372 ‘VO-B', No.98 Squadron as based at RAF Dunsfold.