Registration / Serial:XW537
Military Code:G
Aircraft Original Type:Blackburn B-103 Buccaneer
Aircraft Generic Type:Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer
Aircraft Version:Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2B
C/n (msn):B3-06-70
City / Airport:Leeuwarden (EHLW / LWR)Map
Country:Netherlands
Event:323-Squadron 35 years anniversary 1978
Photo Date:17 November 1978
Photo by:Mat HerbenContact
Photo ID:392425Submit Correction
View count: 188
This a/c crashed in 1982. The aircraft stalled during a descending turn onto the approach to Wattisham, Suffolk. Both crew ejected and it crashed one mile short of the runway. Per a contemporary report: "4 March 1982 also provided spotters some excitement when, while on 'bolthole' from nearby Honington, Buccaneer XW537 from 237 OCU stalled on finals and deposited itself, minus crew, neatly in two pieces in a field between the airfield and the village of Battisford"
Registration / Serial:XW537
Aircraft Version:Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2B
C/n (msn):B3-06-70
City / Airport:Leeuwarden (EHLW / LWR)Map
Country:Netherlands
Photo Date:17 November 1978
Photo by:Mat HerbenContact
Registration / Serial:XW537
Military Code:G
Aircraft Original Type:Blackburn B-103 Buccaneer
Aircraft Generic Type:Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer
Aircraft Version:Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2B
C/n (msn):B3-06-70
City / Airport:Leeuwarden (EHLW / LWR)Map
Country:Netherlands
Event:323-Squadron 35 years anniversary 1978
Photo Date:17 November 1978
Photo by:Mat HerbenContact
Photo ID:392425Submit Correction
View count: 188
This a/c crashed in 1982. The aircraft stalled during a descending turn onto the approach to Wattisham, Suffolk. Both crew ejected and it crashed one mile short of the runway. Per a contemporary report: "4 March 1982 also provided spotters some excitement when, while on 'bolthole' from nearby Honington, Buccaneer XW537 from 237 OCU stalled on finals and deposited itself, minus crew, neatly in two pieces in a field between the airfield and the village of Battisford"
Registration / Serial:XW537
Aircraft Version:Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2B
C/n (msn):B3-06-70
City / Airport:Leeuwarden (EHLW / LWR)Map
Country:Netherlands
Photo Date:17 November 1978
Photo by:Mat HerbenContact