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FAW.7 XH783 - Catford Independent Air Force, Catford, Greater London

Javelin FAW.7 XH783 at Sibson, April 1985; Alan Allen

Before XH783 entered service, it was stored at No.5 MU Kemble (Now Cotswold Airport) up to 1958 where it was used by the A&AEE and the Guided Weapons Test Squadron at RAF Valley. It then moved to No.27 MU Shawbury at the end of 1962 where it was decided it was non-effective, it was soon transferred to No.1 SoTT Halton for technical training as 7798M. Sadly, the airframe was scrapped in 1967, although the cockpit was thankfully saved and preserved at the Catford Independence Air Force where it is still present to this day.

Information on this page current as of 10/07/2021, last updated by Jake

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Alan Partington from Catford

Posted at 10:28pm on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021

After being used at GWTS XH 783 went to 25 and 64 squadrons. Then after being used as an apprentices plaything at Halton the nose was removed and sent to Buckinghamshire Fire Brigade as a training aid. From there the nose went to the Nene Valley Aviation SOciety where some work was done on it. The nose then travelled to the Booker Aircraft Museum. The nose was going to be scrapped when the Museum closed down, I was made aware of it and arranged for the nose to be sent to an ATC Squadron but a change of OC m... read more »read more »

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