Sleap, Jet Provost T.3A XN582/95

[Beemer]

on 3rd August 2020 "mandd582group" joined the Forum saying,

Jet Provost XN582 is now in process of restoration at Sleap, Shropshire Aero Club
We have a team of very experienced volunteers working on the project and plan to start raising funds to assist with this. She is already re-assembled and work is being carried out on the engine ready to test towards the end of the month.


They have not posted any thing since and my database has the JP as now located at the Yorkshire Air Museum since 2021. Was it being restored as a museum piece but why test the engine?

[viscount]

'Wrecks & Relics' 28 (2022) reveals that Jet Provost T.3A XN582 moved from Bruningthorpe, Leics on 22nd July 2021 to Sleap in the care of the Shropshire Aero Club Vintage Jet Group and was up and taxying almost immediately. However, it's tenure in Shropshire was fleeting and it was moved to Elvington, N Yorks on 9th December 2021. I noted it there, in the main Yorkshire Air Museum hangar at the very end of August '23, externally complete in the smart red, white and blue version of R.A.F. training scheme colours, coded '95' with its final unit, 7 FTS at Church Fenton. No clear photo of it as that area of the hangar was roped off.

There is a movement within the aircraft preservation scene that sees the best way to keep an aircraft in pristine condition is not mummify it, shut down and drained of fluids in a museum, but to keep it in full running order but not cleared to fly eg the Shackleton at Coventry (and shortly to move to Elvington), the Victor, Nimrod, Buccaneers, Dakota and Dove at Elvington, Lightnings at Bruntingthorpe, Lancaster at East Kirkby etc.





I'll be posting lists and images from visits to both the Yorkshire Air Museum, York and the South Yorkshire Air Museum, Doncaster during the week, with their own threads.

[Beemer]

As was at Bruntingthorpe but I know Robbo has a more up to date image of it at Sleap.


XN582/95 Jet Provost T.3A by Beemer328i, on Flickr

[robaero]

Here is my picture from August 2021 at Sleap Airfield.

XN582 Jet Provost at Sleap Airfield. R Stock Copyright. by Rob Stock, on Flickr


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