List of surviving Blackburn Buccaneers
The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British low-level attack aircraft that served with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF) between 1962 and 1994 and the South African Air Force (SAAF) until 1991. Three former Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) aircraft remain airworthy in South Africa and one is being restored to flight status in the United Kingdom. Many Buccaneers are preserved in the UK, Ireland and South Africa. A complete list is available here.
S2B XX889 at Kemble Aerodrome in 2009
Ireland
- On display
South Africa
- Stored
- Buccaneer S2B ZU-AVI the former Royal Aircraft Establishment XW988 based at, Cape Town International Airport.
- Buccaneer S2B ZU-BCR the former Royal Aircraft Establishment XW987 based at, Cape Town International Airport.
- Buccaneer S2B ZU-NIP the former Royal Aircraft Establishment XW986 based at, Cape Town International Airport.
- On display
Retired Buccaneer S.50 at the South African National Museum of Military History.
A Buccaneer S.50 at the South African Air Force Museum in 2008.
- Buccaneer S50 412 gate guard at AFB Waterkloof, Pretoria.
- Buccaneer S50 414 at the SAAF Museum, AFB Swartkop, Pretoria.
- Buccaneer S50 416 at the SAAF Museum, AFB Ysterplaat, Cape Town.
- Buccaneer S50 421 at the SAAF Museum, AFB Swartkop, Pretoria
- Buccaneer S50 422 at National Museum of Military History, Saxonwold, Johannesburg
United Kingdom
- On display
Collett deliver Blackburn Buccaneer XV168 to Yorkshire Air Museum from BAE Systems where it served as a gate guard.
XN974 at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire in 2007
XV865 at IWM Duxford in 2006, in 208 Sqn. markings
- Buccaneer S2 XK526 on the gate at Honington Airfield, Suffolk.[3]
- Buccaneer S2 XN974 is in taxiable condition at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire.[4]
- Buccaneer S1 XK532 at the Highland Aviation Museum, Inverness Airport, Scotland.[5]
- Buccaneer S1 XN923 is in runnable condition at Gatwick Aviation Museum, Surrey.[6]
- Buccaneer S1 XN957 at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset coded '630'.[7]
- Buccaneer S1 XN964 at the Newark Air Museum, Nottinghamshire in Royal Navy markings coded '613'.[8]
- Buccaneer S2B XN981 Morris Leslie, Errol, Scotland.
- Buccaneer S2B XV168 is at the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington.
- Buccaneer S2B XV333 at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset in the markings of 801 Naval Air Squadron coded '234'.[7]
- Buccaneer S2B XV350 at the Aeropark at East Midlands Airport.[9]
- Buccaneer S2B XV359 is held at a private collection in Devon, England in the markings of 809 Naval Air Squadron coded '035'.[10]
- Buccaneer S2B XX864 is owned by Richard Murray, Spey Bay, RAF Manston History Museum, Kent.
- Buccaneer S2B XV865 in the markings of No. 208 Squadron RAF at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.[11]
- Buccaneer S2B XW547 in Gulf War markings coded 'R' at the Royal Air Force Museum, London.[12]
- Buccaneer S2B XW544 is in taxiable condition at Cotswold Airport, Gloucestershire.[13]
- Buccaneer S2B XX894 is in taxiable condition at Cotswold Airport, Gloucestershire, in the marking of 809 Naval Air Squadron coded '020'.[13]
- Buccaneer S2B XX900 is in taxiable condition at Tatenhill Airport, Staffordshire.[14]
- Buccaneer S2B XX901 at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire in Gulf War pink markings.[4]
- Buccaneer S2B XW530 was on display outside the Buccaneer Service Station at Elgin, Scotland. It was sold in August 2021 and transported by road in December 2021 to the[15] Scottish Deer Centre in Cupar, Fife.
- Buccaneer S2C XV344 is on display at the gate of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Farnborough Airport.[16]
- Stored or under restoration
- NA.39 XK488 is stored at the Fleet Air Arm Museum storage facility at Cobham Hall, Yeovilton, Somerset.[7]
- Buccaneer S2B XT288 is in storage at the National Museum of Flight, Scotland.[17]
- Buccaneer S2B XX885 (registered G-HHAA) is in storage with Hawker Hunter Aviation (HHA) at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire [18] It was granted UK CAA permission to begin restoration to flight work in April 2006,[19] but the aircraft has not been run or exercised within the last decade.
- Buccaneer S2B XX889 is in storage at RAF Cosford in Shropshire. Currently awaiting road move to the South Wales Aviation Museum (SWAM) in St Athan.
- Buccaneer S2B XX895 (cockpit section only) is under restoration at Thorpe Camp in Lincolnshire.[20]
References
Notes
- Ellis 2008, page 47
- Ellis 2008, page 299
- Ellis 2008, page 202
- Ellis 2008, page 267
- Ellis 2008, page 282
- Ellis 2008, page 208
- Ellis 2008, page 192
- Ellis 2008, page 171
- Ellis 2008, page 129
- Ellis 2008, page 46
- Ellis 2008, page 23
- Ellis 2008, page 143
- Ellis 2008, page 93
- Ellis 2008, page 91
- "Scottish petrol station boss lists RAF bomber jet for sale on Gumtree for £28,000". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- Ellis 2008, page 67
- Ellis 2008, page 281
- Ellis 2008, page 137
- "blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk: CAA Approval to Fly! XX885 (G-HHAA) To Return to the Sky". Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
- Ellis 2008, page 174
Bibliography
- Ellis, Ken (2008). Wrecks and Relics. Manchester: Crecy Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85979-134-2.
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