Has Undergone Seven Months Of Maintenance And Repair Work

The last airworthy de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen may fly again sometime in April, according to a report from Navy Wings in the U.K., which is restoring the aircraft.

The aircraft was donated to the Fly Navy Heritage Trust in September, 2014, which took over maintenance of the aircraft. On the Navy Wings blog, the organization said that "the XP924 is only days away from emerging from 15 Hangar at RNAS Yeovilton. The covers on the recently re-installed port engine are going into place, the starboard wing repair is in its final fettling stage, the pilot’s cockpit is being repopulated with instruments and the autostab gyros are being refitted.

"The annual maintenance elements are also nearing completion and the flap repairs and re-rigging are now complete after nearly 7 months of work! The ejection seats are being re-installed next week and, following the installation of the accumulator, we shall be carrying out undercarriage retraction tests.  That should give us the go ahead for ground runs, leak checks and systems testing followed by high power performance ground runs and taxi tests.

"All this in the next two to three weeks and our first flight of the season is scheduled for the second week in April."

(Photo copyright Andy Rouse / Navy Wings)

FMI: www.navywings.org.uk