First flew 27 August 1958 and exhibited at the Farnborough Airshow in September 1958. Delivered to RAF 10 October 1958. Derelict at RAF Muhurraq by May 1968. SOC 30 October 1968 and ended its days with the fire section at Muhurraq.

The first of type for the RAF and it entered service in 1958. Here the photographer points out a machine-gun barrel protruding from behind the wing struts and just above the stub wing. This may have been to do with the trial installation of ordnance hard points underneath the stub wings, for A&AEE evaluation, but which were never adopted. The aircraft was wrecked when it struck rising terrain and crashed while supply dropping at Mount Meru, Tanzania on 2 March 1961.

While operating in Sarawak on 14 February 1963 it crashed into a river and was destroyed after hitting trees.

Relegated to instructional airframe 8388M and preserved at RAF Cold War Museum, Cosford (EGWC).

152 Sqn(B Flight) aircraft. c/n plate gave the build date as 9th June 1958.

At Dibba airstrip in Oman close to the Sheikhdom of Fujairah, one of the seven that made up the Trucial States(now the UAE) Note the white painted stones being used as runway markers! Scrapped at RAF Muharraq, Bahrain 1968.

Airstrip at "Al Khatt" near RAF Sharjah. Weekly flight to collect fresh vegetables from an "experimental" farm situated in the desert. Plate in cabin read c/n 555 built 31/10/58"(31st October 1958) W/O in 1967.

152 Sqd. "B" Flight with their "TwinPins" were based at RAF Sharjah. C/n plate in cabin had the build date as 26th June 1958. The 152 Sqd marking is under the cockpit window.

A training machine at No 1 School of Technical Training used for engine ground running by apprentices (me included). It is ex XM961 of the Short Range Conversion Unit, RAF Odiham and still exists today as G-BBVF at the Museum of Flight, East Fortune in Scotland.

STOL transport aircraft ex 21 Squadron RAF. Displayed at the RAF's 50th anniversary show at RAF Abingdon. Now at the Cosford museum.