Decommissioned Sentinel sitting in the rain, the day before finally leaving Waddington on a ferry flight to Hawarden. The former ZJ690 joined the RAF in January 2002 and was sold to Springfield Aircraft Charter and Sales of Billings, MT, in July 2022.

Ex Royal Air Force, serial ZJ690.

On 25 February 2021, the Sentinel R1 Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) era came to an end for the Royal Air Force. RAF Sentinels, introduced in the RAF in 2008, saw combat operations in Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Iraq and Syria and was closely involved in surveillance operations near the Russian border / Kaliningrad. The UK Ministry of Defence advised the Defence Equipment Sales Authority (DESA) that the five R1s of 5(AC)sq (this ZJ690 and ZJ691, ZJ692, ZJ693) to sell the aircraft.

ZJ690 was placed into storage at Waddington in 2021.

The RAF's first Sentinel R1.

Arriving for RIAT 2008 on a very wet, wet, wet Fairford runway.