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    Airframe Family: Blackburn Buccaneer
    Latest Model:Buccaneer S.2B
    Last Military Serial:XW543 RAF
    Construction Number:B3-04-71
    Compressed ID:Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B sn XW543 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:12 SQN, RAF Lossiemouth

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Buccaneer S.2B.

    19 May 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XW543.

    By July 1983

    Transferred to 16 SQN, RAF Laarbruck, FRG.
    Operated with markings: Z


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT 83

    By May 1992

    Transferred to 12 SQN, RAF Lossiemouth.

    14 May 1992

    Written off.
    Suffered a hydraulic failure while returning to Lossiemouth from France. It diverted to St. Mawgan, Cornwall, the pilot - Wing Commander David Bolsover - executed a perfect gear up landing after a total hydraulics failure. With the imminent withdrawal of the type from service, XW543 was not repaired, and was scrapped during August 1992.

    August 1992

    Scrapped.
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