Stock Photo: The Royal Air Force Museum London Is A National Museum That Celebrates And Commemorates The Story Of The Royal Air Force
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The hangars housed 36 aircraft at opening. Over the years, the collection has increased in size substantially, and aircraft not on display at Hendon were stored or displayed at smaller local RAF station museums. XR977 first flew on 1st January 1964 and served with 4 FTS, suffering several incidents including a Cat.4R accident in June 1964 and a belly landing on 7th May 1970. Transferred to the Central Flying School (CFS) in March 1976 based at Kemble, and then went on to join the Red Arrows which were based at Kemble at the time. XR977 became No.3 aircraft in the display team and stayed with them until it was flown into Cosford on 5th October 1979 for ground instructional use as 8640M until she was allocated to the RAF Museum, replacing Gnat XP514 as XR977 was in much better condition.In December of 2017, the airframe was moved from Cosford to the RAF's London Museum, where it is now mounted on a pole and is in a flying positon.
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