#avro shackleton

One of its crew pre-flight checks an Avro Shackleton MR.2 of of No 37 Squadron in the Air Forces Middle East based at RAF Khormaksar, Aden before an operation over the Radfan region of the Federation of Southern Arabia (now Yemen).

Colour transparency depicting maintenance of an RAF Coastal Command Avro Shackleton MR2 of No 228 Squadron at RAF St Mawgan, circa 1957

RAF Shackleton MR. Mk. 3, No.WR 970, in flight over cloud. (Port, three-quarter front view, from above).

Note that WR 970, the prototype Mk.3, was first flown on 2 September 1955; it was subsequently lost in a crash in the Peak District (Foolow, Derbyshire) during operational tests on 7 December 1956. All on board were killed