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233OCU/Wittering Harriers in 1978

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fatherfaff
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233OCU/Wittering Harriers in 1978

Post by fatherfaff » Sat Oct 16, 2021 3:06 pm

I seem to have a missing Harrier GR3 in my log - seen at Wittering coded "L" on 17 July 1978 marked as 233OCU. On the same day GR3s "F","G","K" were also noted with 233OCU and I got the s/ns of those. My research has so far found XW921/L in 1983 and XZ972/L in February 1982 (this latter was shot down in the Flaklands in May 1982) but nothing earlier. Anyone got any thoughts?

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Re: 233OCU/Wittering Harriers in 1978

Post by mustang5861 » Sun Oct 17, 2021 8:14 pm

fatherfaff wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 3:06 pm
I seem to have a missing Harrier GR3 in my log - seen at Wittering coded "L" on 17 July 1978 marked as 233OCU. On the same day GR3s "F","G","K" were also noted with 233OCU and I got the s/ns of those. My research has so far found XW921/L in 1983 and XZ972/L in February 1982 (this latter was shot down in the Flaklands in May 1982) but nothing earlier. Anyone got any thoughts?
'BAR' doesn't have anything in the Wittering entries for 1978, but a closing-down ceremony at Luqa on 29/9 lists one of the participants as XV807/L of 233 OCU. Unlikely to have been a different airframe on 17/7 as the OCU had only recently
undergone a recoding exercise from two-number codes to single-letter codes.

HTH,
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Re: 233OCU/Wittering Harriers in 1978

Post by plmc135 » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:04 am

XV807 L is also reported in the Eric Chapman logs at Wittering on 19/05/1978, therefore your sighting falls between two confirmed observations.

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Re: 233OCU/Wittering Harriers in 1978

Post by fatherfaff » Wed Oct 27, 2021 2:04 pm

Thanks all

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