All the photos below were taken near Yeovilton viallge church which is approx midway along the runway on the south side.
Visitors - 6 RAF Tucano T1 trainers visited from their home base at Linton On Ouse in Yorkshire. All were in the black colour scheme with one example wearing squadron marks from 207 sqd.
Above - ZF137 Tucano T1 departs as c/s CORDITE wearing 207 sqd markings of 1FTS
Above - ZF491 Tucano T1 departs as c/s LOP 63 wearing generic 1FTS marks
Among the resident Lynx helicopters were active examples of both the HAS3 and the HMA8 - compare the major differences to the nose and extra lumps and bumps
Above - XZ732 Lynx HMA8DSP "673" of 702 sqd departs from RWY 22 heading South
Above - ZD264 Lynx HAS3GM "306" of 815 sqd departs as SKUA 27
Recent new residents at Yeovilton are 727 sqd with their fleet of Grob G115E Tutors - these were previously based down at Plymouth and transferred to Yeovilton in December 2006.
The Royal Navy website describes 727 sqds role as...
""727 Squadron's primary role is to grade young Naval and Royal Marine officers to assess their suitability for further training with the Fleet Air Arm. This takes place throughout the year and each student is with the Squadron for three weeks. During those weeks, he or she will fly twelve hours with an instructor before flying a Final Handling Test with the Commanding Officer""
Seen here today were G-BYVF, G-BYWM, G-BYXK and G-BYXS
727 sqd Grob Tutor G-BYVF at Yeovilton using c/s TAMAR 11 with Sea King "ZA" behind
727 sqd Grob Tutor G-BYXK at Yeovilton with just "X" on tail rather than "XK" used c/s TAMAR 15
The Royal Navy use a small number of Jetstream T3 aircraft as HMS Heron hacks based at Yeovilton.
Above - Jetstream T3 c/n 647 ZE438 "76" takes off as c/s NAVY 751
Yeovilton also plays host to a small detachment of Royal Navy FRADU Hawk up from their own home base at RNAS Culdrose. The only one seen today was XX160 devoid of any Royal Navy titles - it arrived and departed as BLUE 1.
Royal Navy Hawk XX160 was delivered to the RAF back in May 1982
For me this Hawk photo was my picture of the day - low and fast.
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