The one and only RAAF Jet Provost (repaint for the the P3d Provost payware model)

• Built by Hunting Percival in early 1956 as a P-84 Jet Provost T2,
• 26/03/1956 Registered G-AOHD to Hunting Aircraft Ltd, Luton Airport for use as a company demonstrator aircraft.
• 21/07/1956 Flown to 4th place in the 1956 Royal Aero Club "British Lockheed International Aerobatic Competition" by Richard Wheldon,
• 14/09/57 Noted at RAF Little Rissington,
• April to August 1958 South American Sales tour (Via Trinidad),
• 05/04/58 Arrived crated in Trinidad,
• 09/04/58 to 20/04/58 Assembled by S.Ashby, (Hunting Aircraft Service Engineer), F.Ashley (Armstrong Siddeley Service Engineer) & Richard."Dick".N.Rumbelow. (Hunting Percival Test Pilot Engineer),
• 21/04/58 First flight after re-assembly,
• 28/04/58 Flown from Trinidad to Caracas, Venezuela by Rumbelow & Ashley, (1 Hour 55 Mins/340 n.m.),
• 08/05/58 Flown to Bogotá, Columbia via Maracaibo, (2 Hours),
• 20/05/58 Flown to Cali, Columbia,
• 23/05/58 Flown to Quito, Ecuador,
• 29/05/58 Flown from Quito to Talara, Peru and then Chiclayo and Lima,
• 28/06/58 Departed Lima to Santiago Chile with refuelling stops at Pisco, Arequipa, Arica, Antofagasta & Vallenar,
• 02/07/58 Ten Chilean Air Force officers given demonstration flights,
• 03/07/58 Flew to Mendoza, Argentina,
• 04/07/58 Flown to Cordoba, Argentina, for demonstrations
• 04/07/58 Replaced damaged flap interconnecting rod,
• 08/07/58 To Buenos Aires, Argentina,
• 13/07/58 Flown to the Argentine Navy Flying training School at Bahia Blanca,
• Aircraft returned to Buenos Aires,
• 19/07/58 Flew to Montevideo, Uruguay Rumbelow with D.M.Bay as passenger,
• 25/07/58 Flown from Montevideo to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with refuelling stops at Pelotas, Porto Allegre, Curitaba and Sao Paulo,
• 02/08/58 By special permission, Rumbelow carried out an aerobatic display over Copacabana Beach, as the final display of the tour,
• 12/08/58 Final flights of the South American tour,
• 12/08/58 Commenced crating aircraft for return to Luton, UK.Shipped from Argentina to the UK and remained crated after arrival at Luton,
• Early 1959 Crated aircraft sent from Luton, UK to Bankstown, Australia,
• Early April 1959 Assembled in Australia by de Havilland, Bankstown for the first time since it's South American Sales tour,
• ??/??/59 Ordered by the RAAF from de Havilland via Order No. ABO "E" 5/36,
• 20/04/59 Issued by de Havilland, Bankstown to RAAF Canberra,
• 20/04/59 Delivered to the RAAF, fitted with Viper ASV-58 ASV-L-1515,
• 28/04/59 Issued to Canberra ex de Havilland, Bankstown.
• 07/05/59 Held at Point Cook.
• ??/??/59 Ground incident RAAF Point Cook, Pilot Flt Lt John.A.Paule.
• Damage to port undercarriage repaired.
• 30/11/59 To De Havilland at Bankstown.
• 07/12/59 Charter arrangements terminated.
• 11/08/1961 Registration G-AOHD cancelled.
• ??/05/61 Presented to the Sydney Technical College, Ultimo as an instructional airframe.
• ??/??/83 To Richard E. Hourigan, Melbourne VIC,
• ??/??/85 Held by the RAAF Museum at Point Cook VIC in storage.

The Provost in flight with the backbone of the jet trainers for the RAAF and RAN

Edited March 29, 20224 yr by jeansy

sweet stuff!!