Blackburn Buccaneer S2B (RAF 208 Sqn)

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Blackburn Buccaneer S2B (RAF 208 Sqn) (1:72 scale)
- Blackburn Buccaneer XV160 first entered service as S. Mk 2 with the Royal Navy, based at RNAS Lossiemouth, on 6th March 1967.  Later the same month XV160 famously took part in the bombing of the 118, 000 ton Super Tanker ‘ Torrey Canyon’ which ran aground on the Seven Stones Reef off Lands End in Cornwall. In February 1969 the aircraft was returned to Hawker Siddeley & upgraded to S. Mk 2B standard. She was delivered to the Royal Air Force in 1970 & served firstly with 237 OCU from 1973 & then 208 Sqn from 1976, both based at Honington.  In November 1977 the aircraft was temporarily over-painted in a winter distemper camouflage in order to take part in the ‘ Northern Express’ low level exercise in Norway. The aircraft was lost in September 1982 off Sardinia when it stalled & crashed during an attack manoeuvre.