Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Pembroke C.51 RM-5 (callsign ‘OT-ZAE’) of 21 Smaldeel, Belgian Air Force, Melsbroek, circa 1973.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Pembroke C.52 (Tp 83) of Flygflottilj 8, Royal Swedish Air Force.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Pembroke C.53 PR-2 of the Transport Squadron, Finnish Air Force, Utti, circa 1962. Note survey nose glazing.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Pembroke C.54 ‘SE+517’ of MFG 5, West German Bundesmarine, based at Kiel-Holtenau, mid-1960s.

Мировая Авиация 158

Западная Германия стала главным зарубежным эксплуатантом Pembroke - с июня 1957 года она получила 33 самолета С.Mk 54. Код "AS" означает принадлежность машины к летной школе Flugzeugfuhrerschule S, занимавшейся подготовкой штурманов и пилотов многодвигательных самолетов, а также проводившей переподготовку на данный тип самолета. Другие самолеты поступили в авиацию ВМС.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Sea Prince T.1 WP321 last served with 750 Squadron from Culdrose, it was briefly operated as G-BRFC from Bourne, Cambs, until withdrawn from use by May 1987. It has recently been ferried through to North Weald, Essex, and is under the wing of Aces High.

Aeroplane Monthly 1998-09 / Personal album. Military

“Admiral's Barge” Sea Prince WJ348 at Lee-on-Solent on July 9, 1955.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-08 / 1996 UK Aircraft Collections and Museums Guide (2)

Hunting Percival Sea Prince T.1 WF128 on display at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum.

Aeroplane Monthly 2001-04 / Airshows & Museums Guide

The Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum exhibits this nicely preserved Vickers Valetta, VX580. In the background is Hunting Percival Sea Prince WF128.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Vickers Viking / Valetta - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1945

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v4

Hunting Pembroke C(PR).1.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-05 / M.Oakey, T.Harmsworth - News

ON FEBRUARY 17, 1999 Percival Pembroke XL954/G-BXES flew for the first time since delivery to Atlantic Airlines in November 1994, and it is now available to airshow organisers this year. Built in 1958 as the third from last Pembroke to enter RAF service, it was based at Wildenrath in West Germany with 60 Sqn. Two Pembrokes were retained by the RAF after the rest of the fleet were retired, and XL954 soldiered on until it was flown back from Germany to Northolt and put into storage in May 1990. The first civilian owner was an American, but he never took delivery and XL954 ended up at Tatenhill in Staffordshire, from where Atlantic Airlines took delivery. It will be interesting to see if any show organisers book the Pembroke and its smaller brother, the Prentice, now also represented in the Atlantic fleet. The only other Pembroke flying in the British Isles is WV740/G-BNPH, operated by Martin Willing and based in Jersey.

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Pembrokes in pictures. Just visible here under the fuselage of Pembroke C(PR) Mk 1 XL953 are the sliding door runners covering the photo-recce version’s vertical camera windows. Other cameras could be housed in a removable cabin frame and took images through optically flat side windows. The PR Pembrokes were based in Wesf Germany during the Cold War and used in Operation Hallmark to photograph installations inside East Germany while flying along the edges of the Berlin Air Corridors.

Aviation Historian 18 / P.Davidson - Off the Beaten Track...

Heads up! Percival Pembroke c/n 46, designated as Tp 83 serial 83004 in Flygvapnet service, offers a unique centrepiece at the Maxi superstore at Marsta. The cartoon dog painted on the sides of the forward fuselage is presumably Sir Rabalder, as that name is written next to him!

Aviation Historian 18 / P.Davidson - Off the Beaten Track...

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / M.Oakey, T.Harmsworth - News

ANOKA AIRPORT, Minneapolis, USA, familiar as the home of the Amjet and Greg Herrick collections, staged an open weekend on May 22-23, 1999, where one of its less well-known residents, an ex-Belgian Air Force Percival Pembroke which has not moved from its parking spot for 11 years, was taxied in front of the crowd.

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-11 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Robin Windus’s Curtiss Robin G-BTYY/N348K was on static display at Shoreham’s RAFA Display on the weekend of September 4-5, 1993. In the background is the tail of Northbrook College’s Pembroke XL929/G-BNPU.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Curtiss Robin / Model 50 - СШАUSA - 1928

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Percival Pembroke roof-bumps decoded at last. Tom Singfield sent the two photographs LEFT and RIGHT of N46EA at the Gatwick Aviation Museum at Charlwood on the West Sussex/Surrey border, while RAF Museum Cosford assistant curator Claire Carr provided the image MIDDLE from the cockpit of the museum’s example, WV746, showing its ADF, DME and ILS/VOR kit.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Sea Prince T.1 WF118 on a pre-delivery test flight. Note the ‘thimble’ nose, later deleted, and the underwing store racks.

Aviation Historian 30 / P.Lavender - Reflections on a Tragedy

The identity of the Sea Prince involved in the accident on November 10, 1955, is not known, but this example, WF132, photographed at RAF Odiham the previous month, has RNAS Stretton’s “ST” code letters applied to the fin.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Sea Prince C.2 WM756 in dark blue Admiral’s Barge colours.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1954 / All the world's aeroplanes

The Percival Pembroke C. Mk. I Military Communications monoplane (two Alvis Leonides engines).

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1954 / All the world's aeroplanes

The Percival Sea Prince C. Mk. 2 Naval Communications monoplane (two Alvis Leonides engines).

Air Pictorial 1957-09 / J.Stevens - Farnborough 1957

Prince

Мировая Авиация 158

С 1959 года 750-я эскадрилья, дислоцированная в Хал-Фар (Мальта), приступила к эксплуатации самолетов Sea Prince T.Mk 1.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-09 / News Spotlight

One of the Royal Navy's last four Sea Princes, which left 750 Squadron at Culdrose for RAF Kemble an 26 June 1979 for disposal. One will go to the FAA Museum at Yeovilton.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-05 / News Spotlight

The last of the Hunting Sea Princes of 750 Squadron, Royal Navy, WP308, is seen in company with its replacement, Jetstream T2 XX481

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Handley Page/BAe Jetstream / H.P.137 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1967

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06

Royal Navy Sea Prince WP308 from RNAS Culdrose over the Scilly Isles on March 21, 1979, with its Jetstream successor behind.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Handley Page/BAe Jetstream / H.P.137 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1967

Air Enthusiast 1995-09 / ??? - Flixton Pictorial

N&S’s Percival Sea Prince T.1 WF128 has had a varied career, typical of a long-serving crew trainer. It was delivered to Stretton for storage in 1955, joining 750 Squadron at Culdrose by summer 1958, moving with the unit to Hal Far, Malta, in 1959. In 1965 750 relocated to Lossiemouth in Scotland in 1969-70 it was resparred. Returning to Culdrose in 1972, WF128 was coded ‘570-CU’ (as illustrated) at this time. Briefly with A&AEE at Boscombe Down and the Sydenham Station Flight, WF128 was retired to storage in 1976. It was moved to Honington in February 1979 for use by the fire crews but was acquired by N&S in 1981 and moved to Flixton.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-10 / P.Jarrett - Grapevine

Hunting Sea Prince T Mk 1 WP321/G-BRFC over its base at Bourn Airfield, Cambridgeshire, where it forms part of the Rural Naval Air Service (RNAS). Purchased in September 1980, it was undergoing a CAA certification test flight when this picture was taken. Built in 1952, WP321 last served with No 750 Sqn at RNAS Lossiemouth.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / R.Grant - Canadian Prince

With the ferry registration (N57AW) peeling off, the Atlantis Sea Prince displays her former Royal Navy markings

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / R.Grant - Canadian Prince

With a bright red band behind the radome, Atlantis Transportation Services Inc could not resist calling C-GJIE Prince Rupert - a combination of its designation and a certain reindeer!

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / R.Grant - Canadian Prince

Robert Thorndyke’s Percival Sea Prince has logged more than 7,000 hours during its career.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Pembroke C.1 WV750 served initially on trails work Percival. Its first use with the RAF was with the Station Flight at Negombo, Cyprus, in 1956. It was retired in 1970, last serving with 70 Squadron from Nicosia, Cyprus.

Air Pictorial 1977-05 / J.Rawlings - History of No.60 Squadron

Today No.60 Squadron operates Pembroke C.1s (WV736 illus.) from Wildenrath on communications dunes in R.A.F. Germany. Note markhor's head fin badge

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Pembroke C.1 XL929 in VIP configuration - note the rank stripes on the nose. It was one of the last to serve the RAF, operating with 60 Squadron at Wildenrath, Germany, until 1988.

Air Pictorial 1987-09 / P.Hatch - The Royal Air Force Today

BAC (Hunting) Pembroke C.1 WV701 of No. 60 Squadron, Wildenrath, West Germany. Three of the squadron's Pembrokes will continue in service until next year, although No. 60 has started to re-equip with Andovers

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-12 / M.O'Leary - Pelagian Pembrokes

Air International 1976-03 / J.Fricker - The fifty-foot airforce

No 60 Squadron, based at RAF Wildenrath, operates Pembroke C Mk 1s for Command communications duties.

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-12 / M.O'Leary - Pelagian Pembrokes

Air Pictorial 1957-09

In service with the Air Forces of seven nations, the Pembroke is a versatile general purpose military transport. Passenger seats are quickly removable for conversion to the roles of freight carrying, supply dropping, ambulance, aerial survey, or flying classroom.

Air Pictorial 1977-09 / J.Rawlings - R.A.F. Germany

Every day the Pembrokes of No. 60 Squadron (WV701 illus.) fly in and out of Wildenrath, busy about R.A.F. Germany's communications tasks

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-06 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Cosford Aerospace Museum's latest acquisition, Hunting Percival Pembroke C.1 WV746, arrives at RAF Cosford on April 13, 1987 with MRAF Sir Michael Beetham aboard. It used to be Beetham's personal aircraft when he was C-in-C RAF Germany; he is now Chairman of the Trustees of the RAF Museum, of which Cosford is a part.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1978-03 / Pembroke C.I

WV746 of No.207 Squadron carries two star rank pennant on the nose.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1978-03 / Pembroke C.I

WV700 of No.152 Squadron carries "fighter" colours fore and aft of the roundel as a record of No.152's former role.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1978-03 / Pembroke C.I

WV743 probably while serving with the Metropolitan Communications Squadron

Air Pictorial 1991-10 / R.Macintyre - A South Pacific Symbiosis

A Percival Pembroke C1 (near camera) and pair of Percival Sea Prince T1s.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1987-01 / R.A.F. Sharjah. The Post-war Years

Pembroke WV700 of No.152 Squadron and old control tower

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-11 / B.Overton - Confrontation with ... the Beverley (1)

Beverley XB289 in company with a Hunting Pembroke at Labuan.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Blackburn Beverley / B-101 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1950

Air Pictorial 1977-09 / J.Rawlings, R.Lindsay - R.A.F. Royal Review

STATIC PARK - This view covers the entire static display and shows the three main lines of aircraft: (foreground) Lightnings, VC10, Harriers, Victors and Phantoms; (centre) Vulcans, Jaguars, Canadian A.F. CF-104, R.A.A.F. F-111C and R.N.Z.A.F. Hercules, facing a row of Puma, Wessex, Whirlwind and Gazelle helicopters; and (behind) Shackleton, Argosy, five Nimrods, four Hercules facing Communications aircraft (Andover, Pembroke, Devon) and trainers, with four Buccaneers and five Canberras at the end of the line

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Aerospatiale Gazelle / SA.341/SA.342 - ФранцияFrance - 1967Aerospatiale Puma / SA.330 - ФранцияFrance - 1965Armstrong Whitworth Argosy / A.W.650 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1959Avro Shackleton / Type 696 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949Avro Vulcan / Type 698 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1952BAe Harrier - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1966Blackburn Buccaneer / B-103 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1958De Havilland Dove / D.H.104 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1945English Electric / BAC Lightning - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1957English Electric / BAE Canberra - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark - СШАUSA - 1964Handley Page Victor / H.P.80 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1952Hawker-Siddeley Andover / HS.748 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1960Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod MR.1 / R.1 / MR.2 / HS.801 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1967Lockheed C-130 Hercules - СШАUSA - 1954Lockheed F-104G Starfighter - СШАUSA - 1959McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.Mk I / FGR.Mk II - СШАUSA - 1964SEPECAT Jaguar - InternationalInternational - 1969Vickers VC-10 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1962Westland Wessex - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1958Westland Whirlwind - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1953

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To extend their life after micro fatigue initiations were found in the wing spars, 14 RAF Pembrokes were re-sparred at BAC Weybridge in 1970-71. The first four to be done are seen in this official photo: XF796, WV736, XF799 and WV735. WV735 took 13 months to modify while the last to be completed, XL954, took only two. Note the cockpit roof bulge in XF799 (second from back) which housed the remote controls for the transponder and HF radio.

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-12 / M.O'Leary - Pelagian Pembrokes

The Pembroke entered service with the RAF in 1953 as a communications aircraft and was developed from the Percival Prince. The Belgian Air Force used the type as a transport and 12 Pembroke C.51s served with 20eme Escadrillo 15th Transport Wing. RM-12 is pictured here under construction at Luton in Bedfordshire

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-12 / M.O'Leary - Pelagian Pembrokes

RM-2 is seen during a visit to Britain during the early 1960s.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

First overseas customer for the Pembroke was the Belgian Air Force, ordering 12 C.51s, which were delivered from 1954. All served with 21 Smaldeel at Melsbroek, being withdrawn from service in 1976, having been replaced by the Swearingen Merlin. RM-2 carries the units red indian chiefs head badge.

Air Pictorial 1957-11

Air Pictorial 1956-05 / Photo-review

Second of two Hunting Percival Pembroke C.Mk.53 crew trainers now delivered to the Finish Air Force. Note the serial PR-2 and white/blue roundels. C/n. is PAC/K66/F/002. Has Perspex photographic sighting nose.

Air Pictorial 1957-09

Livery borne by the first Luftwaffe Pembroke C.54, AS-551, are becoming increasingly familiar. The units figure of the German coding gives a useful clue to the position of an aircraft in its production batch.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

AS+552, the second Pembroke C.54 to be delivered to the Luftwaffe, 1951.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

The first Tp 83 for the Royal Swedish Air Force, in front of the tower at Luton.

Air Pictorial 1961-12

Navigators for Swedish Air Force SAAB J-32B all-weather fighters are now being trained on the aircraft's fire-control system in special Tp.83 (Pembroke) flying classrooms fitted with J32B-type radomes

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Pembroke C.55 10 of the Sudanese Air Force, awaiting delivery at Luton. A frustrated President for Spanish airline use, it served only briefly before coming back to the UK.

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

G-AOJG, the President prototype, flying on just one Leonides.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v4

Hunting President.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1978-04

Above is a photograph of Pembroke WV712 supplied by Mr. J.F.Mullins. On 20 April 1955, it had the misfortune to run out of fuel and ditched in Aden Harbour, only minutes from touchdown at Khormaksar. The Bishop of the Sudan was aboard but presumably prayer power was not enough for the last couple of miles. From the look of it , this particular Pembroke never flew again so the date of sale 20.3.69 is spurious.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-05 / M.Oakey - Vintage news

Currently languishing in Zimbabwe are ex-Zambian Air Force Pembrokes AF201 (ex WV707, Royal Rhodesian AF 700), top, and AF202 (ex WV711/SR134, RRAF 701). Perhaps one day they may find a home at the growing museum at Gweru (Gwelo). Hangar stores is a free service for museums, vintage aircraft collectors and operators to advertise their wants and disposals. Items for this column, which must include name, address and a contact telephone number, should be sent to Hangar stores, Aeroplane Monthly, King's Reach Tower, Stamford Street, London SE1 9LS. They will be published as soon as space permits, although Aeroplane reserves the right to refuse or withdraw items.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1978-03 / Pembroke C.I

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1978-03 / Pembroke C.I

Pembroke C.I

Air Enthusiast 1994-09 / J.Silvester - Called to Arms

Percival Sea Prince C.2

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1954 / All the world's aeroplanes

The Percival P.50 Prince III.