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    Airframe Family: Blackburn Buccaneer
    Latest Model:Buccaneer S.2B
    Last Military Serial:XN981 RAF
    Construction Number:B3-08-63
    Compressed ID:Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B sn XN981 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Morris Leslie, Errol, Scotland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Buccaneer S.2.
    Ordered as a Buccaneer S1 but built as an S2

    14 January 1965

    First flight.

    4 February 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XN981.

    Transferred to 700B Flight, RNAS Lossiemouth.

    Circa June 1966

    Transferred to 801 NAS, HMS Victorious.

    Catherine Fox comments (13 November 2022): Flown by Lt Piers Fox from the Victorious. Was the first pilot to carry out deck landing with only one engine after failure of starboard engine.

    Transferred to 809 NAS.

    Transferred to 800 NAS.

    Circa 1971

    Converted to a Buccaneer S.2A.

    1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XN981.

    Transferred to 237 OCU.

    Transferred to 12 SQN.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XN981.

    Transferred to 809 NAS.

    After 25 October 1973

    Converted to a Buccaneer S.2B.
    Conversion carried out at RAF St Athan.

    22 September 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XN981.

    By 13 September 1980

    Transferred to 208 SQN, RAF Honington.
    Alternated ownership with 12 Sqn.

    By 13 September 1980

    Markings Applied: 981

    13 September 1980


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Abingdon Battle of Britain Air Day

    By 10 August 1983

    Transferred to 12 SQN, RAF Lossiemouth.
    Noted at RAF St Mawgan Airshow.

    17 September 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Buccaneer S.2B of 12 Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth taxying to the active runway for display at the 1988 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    1994

    Withdrawn from use.

    By 2009

    To Morris Leslie, Errol, Scotland.
    Stored dismantled.
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Catherine Fox
    Robert Nichols
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