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Halifax LL505 crashed with the loss of all 8 crew on Great Carrs, Coniston Fells, Lake District on 22nd October 1944 while on a night navigation training flight from RAF Topcliffe.
Newark Air Museum 09-04-25

Newark Air Museum 09-04-25

Manston, UK - 10 July 1988

RAF Manston Air Day 1988

XH590's last operational user was 55 Sqn. It was flown to Manston for use by the resident fire school in July 1975, and survived for almost 20 more years before the hulk was removed and scrapped in Aug 1993.

This is the only recreation of a complete Handley Page Halifax in the UK, there is also on in Canada and a recovered wreck in the RAF Museum. One of the RAF's big four engined bombers along with the Shorts Stirling and the famous RAF Lancaster. A number of Lancasters around the world were preserved at the end of the war but both the Stirling and Halifax were over looked. Volunteers at Elvington decided to rectify this, using the wingset from a Hastings (a transport version of the Halifax) and recovered body sections from crashes and scrap yards, they built the parts that were missing. The aircraft has no single identity so it was decided to paint it in the colours of LV907 an RAF Halifax that served with 158 squadron. They had lost seven aircraft coded F-Freddy and was decided to be unlucky so when the crew were assigned LV907 F-Freddy they embraced this and named the aircraft Friday 13th. It survived 128 missions and the war.

Statistics and Status
Elvington Air Museum,
Maintained in Ground Running, Taxy and High Speed Run Condition
Crew: 5
Length: 114 ft 11 in (35.05 m)
Wingspan: 110 ft 0 in (33.53 m)
Height: 28 ft 1½ in[44] (8.57 m)
Powerplant: 4 × Rolls-Royce RB.80 Conway

South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum

South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum

Bournemouth-Hurn, UK - 5 June 1988

TVS Air Show South

Channel Express was based at Bournemouth, initially operating what became a fairly large fleet of Heralds to the Channel Islands and elsewhere in Europe. G-CEXP was acquired in mid-87 from Columbia Italy, and remained in their basic colours for almost five years before being repainted in the full green Channel Express scheme around 1992. It is seen here landing back at its home base at the end of the TVS Air Show.

Bournemouth-Hurn, UK - 5 June 1988

TVS Air Show South

Named 'Blossom'
G-BEZB was one of Channel Express' original Heralds, but by Nov 87 it was pretty much at the end of its working life and it was therefore retired and used as a valuable spares source. It was quickly stripped of most useable spares, and the hulk was stored outside the Airwork hangars at the north of the airfield (as seen here). It had moved to the dump by mid-1991, and was scrapped at the end of the year.
G-BEZB was never repainted in Channel Express' green livery, but retained its previous Express Air Freight colours (which had in turn been adopted from its original Arkia scheme), plus updated titles.

Bournemouth-Hurn, UK - 5 June 1988

TVS Air Show South

Named 'Blossom'
G-BEZB was one of Channel Express' original Heralds, but by Nov 87 it was pretty much at the end of its working life and it was therefore retired and used as a valuable spares source. It was quickly stripped of most useable spares, and the hulk was stored outside the Airwork hangars at the north of the airfield (as seen here). It had moved to the dump by mid-1991, and was scrapped at the end of the year.
G-BEZB was never repainted in Channel Express' green livery, but retained its previous Express Air Freight colours (which had in turn been adopted from its original Arkia scheme), plus updated titles.

Bournemouth-Hurn, UK - 5 June 1988

TVS Air Show South

Named 'Blossom'
G-BEZB was one of Channel Express' original Heralds, but by Nov 87 it was pretty much at the end of its working life and it was therefore retired and used as a valuable spares source. It was quickly stripped of most useable spares, and the hulk was stored outside the Airwork hangars at the north of the airfield (as seen here). It had moved to the dump by mid-1991, and was scrapped at the end of the year.
G-BEZB was never repainted in Channel Express' green livery, but retained its previous Express Air Freight colours (which had in turn been adopted from its original Arkia scheme), plus updated titles.

Bournemouth-Hurn, UK - 5 June 1988

TVS Air Show South

Channel Express was based at Bournemouth, initially operating what became a fairly large fleet of Heralds to the Channel Islands and elsewhere in Europe. G-ATDS was one of its first two aircraft, and is seen here in the full green Channel Express scheme, introduced around a year earlier, but without the tail logo which was added later.