| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | XE512 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
| Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC.1 |
| C/n (msn): | 101 |
| Operator Titles: | UK - Air Force |
| Location | |
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| Location: | Not known |
| Region / Country: | Unknown Region, United Kingdom |
| Photo Date: | January 1953 to July 1953 |
| Photo from: | Peter de Jong Collection |
| Photo ID: | 642180 |
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This was the Pioneer prototype, VL515, originally powered by a DH Gipsy Queen inline engine. Re-engined with an Alvis Leonides radial, it became a civil Pioneer II, G-AKBF, and then the first Pioneer CC.1 for the RAF, XE512, in 1953. Photo stamped July 1953. Delivered in August and immediately shipped to Malaysia for service with the Far Eastern Air Force. Crashed there on 4 November 1958. This photo was added on 14 January 2024, and has since been viewed 168 times. |