Hunting Jet Provost T.1 XD677 'M-Q' of 2 Flying Training School, Syerston, circa 1959. Silver overall with 24in (60.9cm) yellow 'Trainer' bands on fuselage and wings. Code letters approximately 16in. Note: Common to all the artwork: Roundels: fuselage 18in, wings 30in, fin flash 18 x 24in. Serials: Fuselage 8in; underwing 24in.

Hunting Jet Provost T.3 XM411 'R-G' of the Central Flying School, Little Rissington, circa early 1960s. Aluminium with yellow Day-Glo areas.

Hunting Jet Provost T.4 XP669 '37' of 2 Flying Training School, Syerston, circa late 1960s. Aluminium with 8in wide red Day-Glo panels.

Hunting Jet Provost T.4 XP547 '03' of 79 Squadron, 'C' Flight 1 Tactical Weapon Unit, Brawdy, in 1983. Dark Green, Dark Sea Grey with Light Aircraft Grey under surfaces. Red/blue tactical roundels.

Hunting Jet Provost T.4 XP583 '87' of RAF College, Cranwell. Red and white fuselage with red and Light Aircraft Grey wings. Dark and light blue 'Cranwell' band with RAF College crest on fuselage. With the exception of the College band, this was the common finish for the remainder of the aircraft's service.

Hunting (BAC) Jet Provost T.5 XW370 of 'The Swords' aerobatic team, 3 Flying Training School, Leeming. Red and white fuselage with red and Light Aircraft Grey wings. Name in gold script on the intake.

Изображен один из последних серийных T.Mk 5, принадлежавший 1-й летной школе.

The aircraft was given the FAP serial “5803”.

Based at North Weald, Essex, Kennet Aviation operate the only airworthy let Provost T.1. G-AOBU was built as a demonstrator at Luton in 1954 and was retired in 1961. It flies in 2 FTS colours as 'XD693' 'Q-Z'.

Seen at Cranfield on September 17, 1993, Jet Provost T.1 company demonstrator G-AOBU was almost ready for engine runs and taxying trials following a 2 1/2-year restoration by Dick Melton at Micheldever.

T.3s XM424 and XM466 showing off the attractive display colour scheme of 1 FTS, Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, 1992.

Part of the static display at the base in July 1999 to celebrate 1 FTS’ anniversary. The Avro 504 replica, Meteor F.8, Jet Provost T.4 and Hunter T.7 were all from the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington. At the end of the line is a Hawk T.1A and Slovenian Bell 412EP.

The Jet Provost T Mk 55 is similar to the Strikemaster but has a less powerful engine.

Jet Provost G-JETP (ex-XP666, and "107")

Jet Provost G-PROF (ex-RAF XS228, South Arabian Air Force "104" and RSAF "352”);

Two views of the Jet Heritage collection present at Hurn in February 1989.

Самолет Vulcan, сопровождаемый Jet Provost, с которого и был сделан этот снимок, демонстрирует свою способность лететь на малой высоте. Маленький "наперсток" в носовой части - радар системы следования рельефу местности.

On September 3, 1969, the CFS received the first of the new BAC Jet Provost T.5s for the RAF, XW287. The T.5 featured a pressurised cockpit to allow for the increasing requirement for high-altitude training. A total of 110 T.5s were produced for the RAF, with serial numbers in the ranges XW287 to XW336, XW351 to XW375 and XW404 to XW438. Pictured is XW330 flying over the RAF College, Cranwell, Lincs, and wearing the unit's standard blue band.

«Джет Провост». На таких самолетах летали «Красные Пеликаны»

Some Jet Provosts wore this colourful scheme featuring a blue top to its fuselage and tip tanks. Pictured is T.5A XW325, which finished its service life with 6 FTS, Finningley, Yorks.

T.5 XW354 pictured in 1989 wearing a revised version of the Cranwell 'band' adopted by the unit's display team - 'The Poachers' - which swept up from the lower fuselage to the rudder top.

The sole Jet Provost T.2B, G-AOUS, was put into Forca Aerea Portuguesa (FAP) national insignia and training bands and flown to Portugal for trials in October 1959.

The three FAP pilots tasked with testing the Jet Provost, from left: Lt Conceigao e Silva, Capt Belo and 2nd Lt Braga Gongalves.

The T.2 incorporated a number of significant modifications to the T.1, including the replacement of the latter’s spindly long-stroke undercarriage with much shorter hydraulically-operated units...

... and a more powerful engine, the Bristol Siddeley Viper 8 was fitted, although the sole T.2B, G-AOUS, which became “5308” during the FAP’s trials, had a Viper 11 installed, as declared on the aircraft’s nose.

In March 1953 the Ministry of Supply placed an order for ten basic jet trainers, to be called the Jet Provost T.1, for tests. The prototype, XD674, undertook its maiden flight on June 16, 1954. The batch (XD674 to XD680 and XD692 to XD694) was delivered to the RAF during 1955 - XD676 is pictured in April of that year. For the first time a turbojet engine was introduced early on into the training syllabus and pupils could now fly with a nosewheel undercarriage at the start of their training - this was crucial as by then this configuration was almost 'standard' on operational aircraft. The first trainee pilot to go solo in a Jet Provost did so in October 1955.

JET PROVOSTS Mk. I and II. These two photographs provide an excellent opportunity for study of some of the basic differences between the Hunting Percival P.84 Jet Provost T. Mk. 1 and T. Mk. 2. The photo is a rare view of the "civil" demonstrator G-AOBU. The sixth Jet Provost built (G-23-IIs the thirteenth), G-AOBU c/n. HPAL/006) was experimentally fitted with underwing tip tanks.

Photographed at Blackbushe on 8th September is G-AOBU, the only civil-registered demonstration Percival Jet Provost. Ex-Luftwaffe General Adolf Galland is seen nearest the camera, about to fly the Jet Provost.

The Hunting Percival Jet Provost with new "short-leg" short-stroke undercarriage.

Jet Provost

FIN STRAKE EXTENSION is new feature of the production Hunting Percival Jet Provost T. Mk. 2 (XD694).

Power of the Hunting Percival Jet Provost is provided by an Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet.

JET PROVOSTS Mk. I and II. These two photographs provide an excellent opportunity for study of some of the basic differences between the Hunting Percival P.84 Jet Provost T. Mk. 1 and T. Mk. 2. The photo shows the latest modifications incorporated on G-23-I, the Class B (temporary) registered T. Mk. 2. These include the new one-piece, curved windshield, the extended spine to the fin fairing and the short-stroke undercarriage.

Jet Provost. The only jet trainer in the world to have been accepted for ab initio and basic military flying training, the Jet Provost has been ordered into production for the Royal Air Force.

The Hunting Jet Provost T Mk.3, the latest primary/basic trainer - chosen by Royal Air Force Flying Training Command. In full quantity production, it is also available for early delivery to other Air Forces.

' This is it! Solo for the first time. Start with cockpit checks - instruments, oil pressure, take-off trim. Good. Brakes off ... a quick look round ... full throttle.'

'Keep her straight. Ah - not so bumpy, nose wheel is off the ground. Faster ... faster ... gently back with the stick ... up and away in a steady climb.'

' Steady though; we've still got to land ... down undercarriage ... down flaps ... this is living! This is why I wanted to join the R.A.F.'

'Not bad ... not bad at all. A little wide on the approach, but a smooth enough touch-down. And my best take-off yet. Hope my instructor was watching.'

In early 1957 it was announced that an improved variant of the Jet Provost would be standardised throughout Flying Training Command - the T.3. Serial numbers for these were in the ranges XM346 to XM480 and XN458 to XN643. The first T.3, XM346, carried out its maiden flight on June 22, 1958. T.3s entered service with 2 Flying Training School at Syerston, Notts, in June 1959. Pictured is XM384 of 2 FTS.

Underside shot of Jet Provost T.3 XM346 clearly showing the positioning of serial numbers.

BAC (Hunting) Jet Provost T.3A XN470 of No. 7 F.T.S., Church Fenton

Jet Provost T.4 XN554 in the new colour scheme - white top, red undersides - over N. Gloucs. last month

... and the spritely Jet Provosts.

In November 1961 the Jet Provost T.4 entered service with the Flying Training Schools. The 185 examples delivered to the RAF carried the serial numbers XP547 to XP688, XR643 to XR707 and XS175 to XS231. This formation is from the Central Flying School at Little Rissington, Glos.

Several well-known aerobatic teams were formed with Jet Provosts over the years. They included the ‘Red Pelicans' (which were painted all-over red) from the CFS, pictured here in 1964 while flying T.4s.

Jet Provost T.4 of "The Red Pelicans" team. Note polished-metal leading edges of wings and intakes, and C.F.S. badge on nose and fin

Раритет британской авиации: "Джет Провост"

Jet Provost T.4 of "The Red Pelicans" team.

Provost Pair plus one at Hurn.

Percival Provost G-AWPH and Hunting Jet Provost G-PROV during a recent training flight.

Jet Provost G-JETP wears a midnight blue colour scheme. It is seen here airborne in the hands of Adrian Gjertsen.

BAC Jet Provost T.5s.

The flypast began (and ended) with the R.A.F Ensign being flown past the Queen, carried by Whirlwind HAR.10 XR453 of No. 2 F.T S., flanked by C.F.S. Gazelle HT.3s XX406 and XW898. In the background twenty-two Jet Provost T.5As in "25" formation (from No 1 F.T.S. and R.A.F. College Cranwell) start their run-in

BAC Jet Provost T.5 XS231 in the proposed new markings for R.A.F. Training Command aircraft: white-topped fuselage and fin with dayglo red undersides; wings and tailplane in polyurethane grey. The first prototype, XS230, first flew on 28th February 1967 and the type will enter R.A.F. service next year. Upwards of one hundred of these pressurised versions of the T.4 (note more bulbous cabin) are expected to be ordered

Finningley's resident No. 6 F.T.S. supplied this Jet Provost T.5B, XW324 coded "U", for the static park

BAC Jet Provost T.Mk 52 of Iraqi Air Force armed with 24 Sura rockets

Hunting Jet Provost T Mk.52 in the insignia of the Venezuelan Air Force

Trials pilots Belo (right-hand seat) and Goncalves in the cockpit of the Jet Provost at Sintra during its FAP tests. The air arm ultimately chose the Cessna T-37C which, perhaps significantly, incorporated wing hardpoints which could carry ground-attack stores. The Jet Provost was strictly a trainer until the development of the BAC Strikemaster.

Oops! There were red faces all round for the aircraft’s pilots when it came to rest on the grass beside the runway at Sintra after the lowering of the undercarriage was left too late during a test-flight landing. Fortunately, the damage was minimal and quickly repaired.

A mobile crane removes the Jet Provost from the grass at Sintra after its mishap. Only four T.2s were built, G-AOUS later coming to grief when it crashed near Biggleswade during diving trials, killing Hunting test pilot Lt-Cdr J.R.S. Overbury, on November 16, 1960.

Hunting Percival Jet Provost T.Mk.1

"RED PELICANS" COLOUR NOTES: The aircraft are predominantly "dayglo" red, with standard R.A.F. roundels and serials and the normal anti-glare black on top of the nose. Tip-tanks are striped silver and "dayglo" red. Aerials: U.H.F. silver; D.M.E. and Standby yellow. The C.F.S. crest consists of a red pelican with gold embellishments, on a grey tower. Nose flashes are coloured (towards centre): purple, green, light blue (thin band) and black

HUNTING JET PROVOST T.3: Now in service with the R.A.F., the Jet Provost T.3 can be seen at Farnborough in its standard and export forms, the latter being the Jet Provost T.51 for Ceylon. The Jet Provost T.4 has the more powerful Viper A.S.V.II. The Jet Provost T.3 has a 1,750-lb. s.t. Bristol Siddeley Viper 102 turbojet, and dimensions are: Span 36 ft. 11 in.; length 32ft. 5 in.; height 10ft. 2 in.; wing area 213.7 sq.ft.

Hunting Jet Provost T.Mk.4

BAC 145 Jet Provost T.Mk 5 primary and basic trainer