Part of the interesting and ever-expanding UAS collection.

Landing on a very dreich day.

Landing on a very dreich day

This Sea Hawk still wears its original Fleet Requirements Unit overall black colour scheme, having flown with this unit from 1958 to 1963. After that it joined Shorts' Apprentice Training School at Sydenham in Belfast and served there for 25 years. In 1989 Shorts donated WN108 to the Ulster Aviation Society.

Constructed in in 1943 with USAAF serial 43-14885 but transferred to the RAF as HB612. Under the terms of lend-lease the aircraft was returned to the USAAF post-war but it appears to have remained in the UK. It was registered as G-AJSN on 8 May, 1947 to the West London Aero Club and was bought by Hon. Benjamin Bathurst (an ex-RAF pilot) on 13 May 1948. It was sold to another owner in March, 1967, but its flying career apparently ended when it suffered a ground loop at Cork on 10 June, 1967. As can be seen here, the aircraft has now been beautifully restored by the Ulster Aviation Society.

On standby in the rain at Long Kesh.

Replacing the usual A330 service was this Boeing 777-300ER, B-2003 on the China Eastern MU9343/9344 flight between Shanghai and Melbourne.