The Canberra is at RNAS Sydenham/RAF Belfast/Belfast Harbour/Belfast City/George Best Aerodrome/Airfield/Airport. The site has quite a history.
The Canberra is XH129, a PR9. It never made it into RAF service, see XH129
The Shorts factory on Queens Island Belfast in 1943. the aircraft are Sunderland Mk IIIs, our coastal command guru tells me that
“EJ163 is recorded as : ‘to 95 Sqn. ‘K’ 14 May 1944; to 302FTU 16 April 1944; to 343 Sqn (Dakar) 15 May 1944; to Aeronavale 15 May 1945 7F-6. Cashed on take-off 3 November 1949 (7 killed) SOC 13 March 1950. 302 FTU was based at Loch Erne in 1944.
EJ167 (upper left?) to Wig Bay 30 November 1943; to makers 9 Feb 1952; to RNZAF 4 June 1953 (became NZ4116). Scrapped 1966-67″
Short Tigercat anti aircraft missile system that saw service with one squadron of the the RAF Regiment from 1967. The date of this photo is uncertain, I don’t remember Sydenham having an AR1/Watchman radar when i was at Aldergrove 1969-76, only a 424/ACR6. The tower/Canberra photo at the top of the post is dated 1958 with no roof top radar (its too early for an AR1 or Watchman at that date anyway).
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