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Airfix 1/72 BAe Nimrod MR.2, XV242, St. Mawgan Wing, 30 August 1980, "zapped" by Patron 13, USN.
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Vickers Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVIe 1:48 Airfix 05116
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Revell 1/72 Eurofighter Typhoon
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Revell 1/72 BAC Lightning F.6 (04301)
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Airfix(?) Lightning
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1/72 Lightning F Mk 3, XR749/DA, Lightning Training Flight (10th Anniversary LTF, October 1985).
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Airfix 1/72 Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia (A01071A)
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Airfix Auster
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This is Flightpath's 1/72 RAF Trolley Accumulator Set and there are four of them
A pre-WW2 example that was used into the 1950's
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Two 1941 examples, used by both the RAF and USAAF well into the 50's
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and one that was regularly in use in the 1970's, and continues to be used with the BoBMF and on preserved aircraft
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Airfix 02068 1/72 Lightning F-1A XM186/B of 111 Squadron, Wattisham.
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Lightning F.3, XP706 ‘L’, 74 (F) Sqn., RAF Leuchars 1964.
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XP759/J of 23 Squadron RAF Leuchars May 1966.
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XR718/BK1, No.11 Squadron, RAF Binbrook, August 1984.
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Airfix 1/48 EE Lightning F.2A (A09178) XN793, 92 Squadron, Gütersloh, August 1972
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XS901, 11 Squadron, RAF Binbrook, August 1978
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Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hunter FGA9, No. 20 Squadron, RAF Tengah, 1962
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Airfix 1/72 Lancaster B.II (A08001)
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Airfix 1/72 English Electric Lightning F.2A (A04054) XN781 flown by Wing Commander R. K. Barcilon, No. 19 Squadron, R.A.F. Gutersloh, late 1974.
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Airfix 1/24 Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib (A19002) MN666 C-G flown by Wing Commander Charles Green, No. 121 Wing, R.A.F. Holmsley South, Hampshire and B.5 Le Fresne-Camily, Lower Normandy, June 1944.
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Avro Lancaster B.III (A08013), Spitfire Mk. IIa (02010) and PR.XIX (A02017) from the Airfix 1/72 BBMF Gift Set (A50158)
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Airfix 1/24 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I (12001)
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Airfix 1/72 BAe Hawk (A02005)
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