List of surviving Blackburn Buccaneers
The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British low-level attack aircraft that served with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF) between 1962 and 1994 and the South African Air Force (SAAF) until 1991. Three former Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) aircraft remain airworthy in South Africa and one is being restored to flight status in the United Kingdom.
S2B XX889 at Kemble Aerodrome in 2009
Germany
- On display
- Buccaneer S2C XV337 is on static display at the RAF Laarbruch Museum.[1]
- Buccaneer S2B XX893 (cockpit section only): Museum für Luftfahrt und Technik, Werningerode, Germany.
Ireland
- On display
- Buccaneer S2B XX897 is on static display at the Irish National Air Museum, Atlantic Air Venture Park Shannon Airport, Co. Clare in European Airlines colours.[2] Fitted with a Panavia Tornado F2 nosecone and was used to trial the Tornado ADV's Foxhunter radar.[3]
South Africa
- Airworthy
- Buccaneer S2B ZU-AVI the former Royal Aircraft Establishment XW988 based at Thunder City, Cape Town International Airport.
- Stored
- Buccaneer S2B ZU-BCR the former Royal Aircraft Establishment XW987 based at Thunder City, Cape Town International Airport.
- Buccaneer S2B ZU-NIP the former Royal Aircraft Establishment XW986 based at Thunder City, Cape Town International Airport.
Both of these were flyable but were put for sale although ZU-NIP is still airworthy but ZU-BCR is unfortunately not and will need to be restored.
- On display
Retired Buccaneer S.50 at the South African National Museum of Military History.
A Buccaneer S.50 at the South African Air Force Museum in 2008.
- Buccaneer S50 412 gate guard at AFB Waterkloof, Pretoria.
- Buccaneer S50 414 at the SAAF Museum, AFB Swartkop, Pretoria.
- Buccaneer S50 416 at the SAAF Museum, AFB Ysterplaat, Cape Town.
- Buccaneer S50 421 at the SAAF Museum, AFB Swartkop, Pretoria
- Buccaneer S50 422 at National Museum of Military History, Saxonwold, Johannesburg
United Kingdom
Blackburn Buccaneer XV168 on the way to Yorkshire Air Museum from BAE Systems.
- On display
XN974 at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire in 2007
XV865 at IWM Duxford in 2006, in 208 Sqn. markings
- Buccaneer S2 XK526 is the Gate guardian at Honington Airfield, Suffolk.[4]
- Buccaneer S1 XK532 at the Highland Aviation Museum, Scotland.[5]
- Buccaneer S1 XN923 at the Gatwick Aviation Museum, Surrey.[6]
- Buccaneer S1 XN957 at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset coded '630'.[7]
- Buccaneer S1 XN964 at the Newark Air Museum, Nottinghamshire in Royal Navy markings coded '613'.[8]
- Buccaneer S2B XN974 is in taxiable condition at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire.[9]
- Buccaneer S2B XV168 was held by BAE Systems at Brough Aerodrome, East Yorkshire in No. 12 Squadron RAF markings. It was transferred to the Yorkshire Air Museum in August 2013.[10]
- Buccaneer S2C XV344 is on display as the Gate guardian of the Defence Science and Technology at Farnborough Airport.[11]
- Buccaneer S2B XV350 at the Aeropark at East Midlands Airport.[12]
- Buccaneer S2B XV361 at the Ulster Aviation Society, Long Kesh, Maze, Lisburn, Northern Ireland.[13]
- Buccaneer S2B XV865 in the markings of No. 208 Squadron RAF at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.[14]
- Buccaneer S2B XW530 is on display outside the Buccaneer Service Station at Elgin, Scotland. Edit. Now on display at Scottish Deer Centre.[15]
- Buccaneer S2B XW544 is on display and has undergone restoration to full taxiable condition, at Cotswold Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire.[16]
- Buccaneer S2B XW547 in Gulf War camouflage coded 'R' at the Royal Air Force Museum, London.[17]
- Buccaneer S2B XX889 in Gulf War desert pink and the markings of No. 208 Squadron RAF at South Wales Aviation Museum, St. Athan, Wales.[18]
- Buccaneer S2B XX894 is in taxiable condition at Cotswold Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire in the markings of 809 Naval Air Squadron coded '020'.[19]
- Buccaneer S2B XX900 is in taxiable condition at Cotswold Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire.[20]
- Buccaneer S2B XX901 is owned by the Buccaneer Aircrew Association, and is on display at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire.[9]
- Stored or under restoration
- NA.39 XK488 is stored at the Fleet Air Arm Museum storage facility at Cobham Hall, Yeovilton, Somerset.[7]
- Buccaneer S2B XT288 at the National Museum of Flight, Scotland.[21]
- Buccaneer S2B XV333 at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset in the markings of 801 Naval Air Squadron coded '234'.[7]
- Buccaneer S2B XV359 is held at a private collection in Devon, England in the markings of 809 Naval Air Squadron coded '035'.[22]
- Buccaneer S2B XX885 (registered G-HHAA) is under restoration at the former RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire [23] and was being rebuilt to flying condition by Hawker Hunter Aviation. It was granted UK CAA permission to fly in April 2006,[24] but this effort has stalled, and the airframe has now been stored for over a decade.
- Buccaneer S2B XX895 (cockpit section only) is held at a private collection in Oxfordshire.[25]
References
Notes
- Jake Wallace. Damien Burke (ed.). "Blackburn Buccaneer - Survivor XV337". Thunder & Lightnings.
- Ellis 2008, page 47
- "Our Engine Testbed". Quicksilver World Water Speed Record Challenge. QWSR. Archived from the original on 19 September 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- Ellis 2008, page 202
- Ellis 2008, page 282
- Ellis 2008, page 208
- Ellis 2008, page 192
- Ellis 2008, page 171
- Ellis 2008, page 267
- "Brough to Elvington journey for Buccaneer XV168 aircraft". BBC. 18 August 2013.
- Ellis 2008, page 67
- Ellis 2008, page 129
- Ellis 2008, page 299
- Ellis 2008, page 23
- Damien Burke (ed.). "Blackburn Buccaneer - Survivor XW530". Thunder & Lightnings.
- Jake Wallace. Damien Burke (ed.). "Blackburn Buccaneer - Survivor XW544". Thunder & Lightnings.
- Ellis 2008, page 143
- Jake Wallace. Damien Burke (ed.). "Blackburn Buccaneer - Survivor XX889". Thunder & Lightnings.
- Ellis 2008, page 93
- Ellis 2008, page 91
- Ellis 2008, page 281
- Ellis 2008, page 46
- Ellis 2008, page 137
- "blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk: CAA Approval to Fly! XX885 (G-HHAA) To Return to the Sky". Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
- Ellis 2008, page 174
Bibliography
- Ellis, Ken (2008). Wrecks and Relics. Manchester: Crecy Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85979-134-2.
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