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Serial #: WT333 Construction #: EEP71470 Civil Registration: G-BVXC |
Model(s): Canberra B(I)8/B.6 Mod Name: Treble Three Status: Displayed Last info: 2017 |
Built by English Electric as a B(I)8, March 1956.
Delivered to the Controller, Air – Ministry of Supply, March 1956.
Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), Farnborough, UK, 1956.
- Used for various trial instalations.
- Transferred to Armament Department of the RAE, July 1956.
-- Used for functional and flight trials of the Low Altitude Bombing System (LABS).
Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE), Boscombe Down, UK, March 1959.
- Used for Microcell Rocket firing trials.
British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) at Warton, UK, July 1965.
- Used for flight trials for the carriage and release of drop tanks.
Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE), Boscombe Down, UK, February 1966.
Weapons Research Establishment, May 1966.
- Flown to Woomera, Australia for weapons trials.
- Repainted in white scheme.
Royal Radar Establishment Flight (RRE), Pershore, UK, July 1969.
- Used for torpedo seperation tests.
27 Maintenance Unit, RAF Shawbury, UK, September 10, 1970.
- Stored.
Royal Radar Establishment Flight (RRE), Pershore, UK, February 1972.
- Fitted with cockpit of Canberra B.2/WK135, 1972-1975.
RAE Bedford, UK, May 1977-1993.
- Flown to 5 MU, Kemble for new "raspberry Ripple" scheme, September 1978.
- Withdrawn from use, September 1993.
Defence Evaluation & Research Agency, Farnborough, UK, 1994.
- Stored.
- Put up for disposal, ~1995.
Classic Aviation Projects, Bruntingthorpe, UK, January 1995.
- Registered as G-BVXC.
- Ferried to Bruntingthorpe, Jaunary 28th, 1995.
- Used as spares source for Canberras XH568 and WK163.
Roger Wintle/Arthur Perks, Bruntingthorpe, UK, ????.
- Fitted with a pair of Rolls Royce Avon 109 engines.
- Restored to taxiable condition.
Roger Wintle/Canberra WT333 Operating Team, Bruntingthorpe, UK, ????-2017.
- Known as Treble Three.
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Source(s): Canberra WT333 Operating Team |
Photo Source(s): Claire Williamson Research Assistance: Stephen C. Reglar/Canberra WT333 Operating Team |
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