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Hastings WD491
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WD491 Finished its flying day like this, at West Raynham, the official accident report states that on 9th June 1967 the starboard tyre burst on landing, the aircraft swung and ended up on the grass, with the tail in the air, due to the aircraft being at the end of its service life it was decided to scrap th...
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Hastings WD479
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http://www.airteamimages.com/pics/131/131774_big.jpg
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Hastings WD490
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http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/4/3/8/1741834.jpg
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Hastings WD500 VIP C4
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WD500 was duly the first C4 [ViP] aircraft John Holloway writes Hi chaps Me again.another special Hastings arrived at Mauripur with an AOC's inspection WD500 VIP .One of the inspection team was Johnny Johnson the BofB Spitfire pilot The aircraft was fitted with hydraulic steps.In 1996 I had an...
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Hastings WD476
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476 in the charge of 36 Squadron https://flic.kr/p/7KCzSC
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Hastings WD485
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A picture here of 485 awaiting the scrapman at Shawbury http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1092165M.jpg
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Hastings WD498
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This was a terrible accident involving many lives lost http://www.don-simmonds.co.uk/hastings.htm on 10th October 1961 at El Adem, the aircraft was a write off
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Hastings WD481
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Used for training purposes at RAF Catterick, Yorkshire, Fire School
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Hastings WD497
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http://handleypagehastings.activeboard.com/t57605305/wd497-raf-seletar-1961/
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Hastings WD499
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https://www.aviationphotocompany.com/p609609102/h6f82cfec#h5ace4696
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Hastings WD484
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WD484 02/03/1955 WD484 Crashed on take off from Boscombe Down, elevator locks in, 2 died F/Lt Edmonds and F/Lt Seaman from Defford TFU when undergoing RADAR trials
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Hastings WD478
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19/03/1951 WD478 NO ACCIDENT RECORD CARD EXISTS. 3 Died.
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Hastings WD495
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SoC 7th February 1968 Pictured at Ringway Airport when on charge to 36 Squadron http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1100556F.jpg
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Hastings WD494
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http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Transports/Hastings.jpg
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Hastings WD493
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http://www.maryevans.com/images/10/84/47/10844766a.jpg
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Hastings WD489
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My own experience with WD489 [SoC 12 02 1968] 8th December 1963 El Adem: Powerplant change on Hastings WD489 of 70 Squadron, this took 3 days to complete as the new one that was fitted was OK but on start up another engine went duff and we had to wait for another Bristol Hercules engine to be flown in from Ni...
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Hastings WD488
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Hastings_C2.jpg/128...
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Hastings WD487
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WD487 to No.27 MU RAF Shawbury, Shropshire. SOC 14/10/1968 in Air Support Command livery
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Hastings WD486
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Struck off Charge 29/11/1967
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Hastings WD483
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The end came for 483 at AtaqUpdated 13th March 2010 an email in from Peter King who writes: WD483 HastingsC2 Ataq, Aden 9th April 1956 About the same time there was trouble up-country in the area around Ataq and for the first time in years an army infantry detachment came to Aden. At first they had to sl...
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Hastings WD480
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This was used in trials by the RAE at Farnborough, 480 continued flying until 1974, the under fuselage pannier is shown here http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1275562M.jpg
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Hastings WD477
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01031954 WD477 4.00 hrs/mins Lyneham-Colerne-Lyneham 9th trip in a Hastings as an ATC Cadet https://www.flickr.com/photos/egbj/8227183521/in/photostream/player/
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Hastings WD475
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http://www.singas.co.uk/Douglas_Craner/IMGP4973.JPG
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Hastings WD492
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WD492 crashed on Greenland Ice Cap at North Ice Camp on the 16th September 1952 whilst on a supply drop, aircraft is still in situ but now buried under a sheet of ice and snow. Aircraft belonged to 47 Squadron read about it here http://www.air-despatch.co.uk/open/frozen/frozen.htm
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Hastings WD482
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WD482 Royal Radar Establishment/Radar Research Establishment, take your pick as to the name of the establishment, whatever, the Hastings on charge to the RRE at Pershore was a C2 WD482, one of its uses was looking at sideways looking RADAR for the TSR2, was this ever developed after the cancellatio...
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Hastings WD496
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Used extensively by Boscombe Down in RADAR, Radio and Navigational equipment testing, a picture by Adrian Balch, this had an accident at Boscombe Down in September 1973 and was eventually scrapped http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1031960M.jpg http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/imag...
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