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Avro Shackleton Survivors

United Kingdom

MR1

  • VP293 - Nose section: owned by Norman Thelwell and on loan to the Shackleton Aviation Group.
  • WG511 - Fuselage: Cornwall Aero Park, Helston.

MR2

  • WL756 - AEW.2 Forward nose, Caernafon, N.Wales
  • WL795 - Cornwall Aviation Society, RAF St Mawgan, Cornwall.
  • WR963 - Shackleton Aviation Group, Coventry Airport, West Midlands.
  • (WL795 & WR963 were reconverted back to MR2c after being sold as AEW2s.)

AEW2

  • WR960 - Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.

MR3 Phase3

  • WR971 - Fuselage section: Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum, Wisbech Cambs.
  • WR974 - South Wales Aviation Museum, Charlwood, Surrey.
  • WR977 - Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe. Notts.
  • WR982 - Gatwick Air Museum, Charlwood, Surrey.
  • WR985 - MR.3 Long Marston Airfield, Warwickshire (derelict)
  • XF708 - Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambs.

Cyprus

AEW2

  • WL747 - AEW.2 Paphos Airport.
  • WL757 - AEW.2 Paphos Airport.
  • WR967 - MR/T.2 'Dodo' Ex Crew Trainer. Paphos dump.

MR3

  • XF700 - MR3 Nicosia dump.

USA

AEW2

  • WL790 - Pima Air Museum, Tucson, Arizona.

South Africa

Mk3

  • 1716 - Abandoned in Shara Desert at 22°37'59"N. 1°30'58"W.
  • 1717 - Stanger Transport Museum, KwaZulu Natal.
  • 1720 - Ysterplaat AFB, near Cape Town (painted as 1717)
  • 1721 - SAAF Museum, Swartkop, Tshwane, Pretoria
  • 1722 - Ysterplaat AFB near Cape Town (airworthy0
  • 1723 - Vick's Viking Garage, Soweto, Johannesburg.

Current at 23rd February 2010.