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1978 Movements

1978 residents and movements are listed here

January 1978February 1978March 1978April 1978May 1978June 1978
July 1978August 1978September 1978October 1978November 1978December 1978
56 Sqn Phantom FGR2 taxy-ing past the Wattisham control tower

Based Aircraft noted this year

XT891Z56 Sqn
XT908P23 Sqn
XT909T23 SqnDelivered on 29th October
XV402G23 SqnDelivered on 4th October
XV403T23 SqnReturned to 111 Sqn on 16th January
XV404H23 SqnDelivered on 29th September
XV406A23 SqnDelivered on 13th January
XV408N23 Sqn
XV409D56 SqnTo 111 Sqn on 18th December
XV420J56 SqnTo Holme-on-Spalding Moor on 23rd June
XV421B23 SqnTo St. Athan on 3rd October
XV422C23 Sqn
XV423E23 SqnDelivered on 5th May
XV424D56 SqnDelivered on 15th December
XV430F23 SqnDelivered on 24th August
XV432D23 Sqn
XV434J23 SqnDelivered on 30th November
XV435M23 SqnReturned from St. Athan on 31st March
To 228 OCU on 3rd April
XV437J56 SqnDelivered on 23rd June
XV460E56 Sqn
XV464B56 Sqn
XV466K56 SqnDelivered on 25th July
XV468H56 SqnDelivered on 5th October to replace XV500
XV469A56 Sqn
XV470C56 Sqn
XV472L23 Sqn
XV474X
F
23 Sqn
56 Sqn
Delivered on 23rd October, the first in Air Defence grey scheme.
Transferred to 56 Sqn on 20th November, coded F, replacing XV486
XV476S23 Sqn
XV482C56 SqnTo Holme-on-Spalding Moor on 25th July
XV483O23 SqnTo St. Athan on 16th February
XV486F56 SqnTo St. Athan on 17th November
XV490G56 Sqn
XV495L56 SqnDelivered on 8th December
XV497Q23 SqnReturned from St. Athan on 31st January
To Holme-on-Spalding Moor on 5th May
XV500H56 SqnTo Holme-on-Spalding Moor on 9th October

Tail code to serial cross reference

23 Sqn56 Sqn
AXV406AXV469
BXV421BXV464
CXV422CXV482 then XV470
DXV432DXV409 then XV424
EXV423EXV460
FXV430FXV486 then XV474
GXV402GXV490
HXV404HXV500 then XV468
JXV434JXV420 then XV437
LXV472KXV466
MXV435LXV495
NXV408ZXT891
OXV483
PXT908
QXV497
SXV476
TXV403 then XT909
XXV474
XM275Canberra B(I)8Fire Section
XM139Lightning F1Decoy
XM147Lightning F1Decoy
VZ634Meteor T7Air Training Corps
WL628XVarsity T1Fire Section

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