This Victor was built as a B2 and retained by HP for autopilot trials, also with A&AEE Boscombe Down. XL164 never flew as a bomber, rather was selected at the end of 1972 to be one of a number of B2s converted into K2 tankers, with modification work carried out at Woodford. After serving with 57 and 55 Sqn, the latter being the last to operate the type, XL164 was wfu in September 1993 and flown to Brize Norton in for use as an instructional airframe (9215M). It was scrapped in August 1995 with the nose saved by the Gatwick Aviation Museum, moving to The Bournemouth Aviation Museum in May 2013.

X4786 at the end of its operational career with 543 Sqn at Benson. It was passed to a training unit at Dyce in Scotland and withdrawn from use before the end of World War II. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Went on to serve with No. 659 (AOP) Squadron. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Canadian built aircraft with the enlarged bomb bay for 8000lb bombs. Once Boscombe Down finished its trial, KB783 went on the serve with 428 and 419 Squadrons, both Canadian units within Bomber Command. The aircraft returned to Canada postwar where it almost immediately suffered an accident at Yarmouth. Written off, it would serve two years as an instructional airframe before being scrapped. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Ordered by France but taken over by the RAF after the French capitulation. BJ442 was initially used for airfield defence at Burtonwood where it had been assembled. It was later shipped to India for use by 155 Sqn, BJ442 was lost while intercepting Japanese fighters in the Imphal area on April 20, 1943. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

MM230 served with the Fighter Interception Unit as a target aircraft before being returned to de Havilland for further trials and display work. Struck off charge in 1946. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

FK122 at Prestwick for servicing by Scottish Aviation. It had arrived in the UK in June 1942 and initially loaned to BOAC for training B-24 transport crews. FK122 went on to Nos. 120 and 86 Squadrons and finally with No.1332 Conversion Unit. Struck off charge in January 1946. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

An older generation of Airfix model builders might remember this aircraft was the decal set provided with the original 1960 Defiant kit. The actual aircraft was earmarked for conversion to a target tug by Reid and Sigrist but the work may not have been done before it was written off. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

W8254 awaiting installation of a Turbinlite searchlight in the nose for night interceptions. The aircraft was lost when it stalled on approach to Ringway (Manchester) on February 6, 1942, while being ferried by the Air Transport Auxiliary. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Guarding the 43 Sqn HAS site at Leuchars.

HD373 is ex USAAF 43-28001 and remained a test aircraft at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE) and Royal Aircraft Establishment until 1947. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Delivered to 542 Squadron. Lost to enemy action when RM632 was abandoned off Norfolk while returning damaged from a sortie over the Ruhr on January 6, 1945. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Bellows was an Argentine business owned by an expat British businessman. The company paid for seven Whirlwinds. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

This aircraft served with No. 268 Squadron before being turned over to No. 1686 Bomber (Defence) Training Flight in 1943. The Tomahawk I was equivalent to a USAAF P-40 but with four wing guns instead of two. Found unsuitable by the RAF for combat and relegated to training. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

On final approach to Runway 23 at RAF Lossiemouth. Delivered new to the RAF in 1991. Withdrawn from use at RAF Marham in 2019. Replacing a Buccaneer as the gate guard at RAF Honington.

About to touch down on Runway 05 at its RAF Lossiemouth base. Carries the markings of 617 Squadron, "The Dambusters". Delivered new to the RAF in 1991. Withdrawn to RAF Leeming in 2014 for reduction to parts.

Approaching to land on Runway 23 at RAF Lossiemouth. Delivered new to the RAF in 1983. Withdrawn to RAF Leeming for storage and reduction to parts in 2017.

About to touch down on Runway 23 at its XV Squadron base at RAF Lossiemouth. Carries the pennant of WG Cdr J P Nixon and the crest "MacRobert's Reply". After losing one son in a flying accident, Lady MacRobert lost two sons on active RAF service during WWII and donated aircraft in their memory. One aircraft was a Stirling bomber of XV Sqn, defiantly named "MacRobert's Reply". The Squadron has continued the tradition. The fin stripe is Robertson Hunting tartan.