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Falklands warbirds

Posted by simon king on Sun Jan 06, 2002 07:00:40 AM

Channel 4's weeked of programmes on the Falklands conflict to mark the 20th Anniversary (blimey is it really 20 years ago!) set me thinking

Is there any online record of suviving aircraft from these events? And in the theoretically preservation minded 80's and 90s are we actually any better at saving the hardware which can properly be called "warbirds" than we were in the 40's and 50s.

For instance there's only one SHAR FRS1 left now in the UK and that had to be cobbled together from a FRS1 nose and a GR3 airframe.
Do any of the converted SHAR F/A 2s have a combat history?.
Are there any GR3s left with a Falklands history? What about Chinooks, Wessexes and Gazelles - not to mention Black Buck Vulcans, Victors and Hercs

Just be interested in comments

sk

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