Tornado landing at Manston

[colinhall]

Was out shopping with the wife today and there was a tornado landed at Manston,went over there but was too dark to get the reg so does anyone know which one it was please. If it helps the tail had a biplane painted on it?, many thanks,Colin.

[RodBearden]

Hi Colin

Unless there's more than one of them, it's GR4A ZA398 - the BE2 biplane is commemorating the centenary of 11 sqn's first deployment (from Farnborough to Montrose).

[colinhall]

Many thanks for that Rod,don't know what it was doing there but it was on its own. It parked over near the cargo centre and as I said it was too dark to get the reg.thanks Rod.

[colinhall]

Morning Rod, went over to Manston yesterday to have some lunch at the little cafe at the Spitfire museum and the Tornado was still there. I asked at the museum if they had any idea what it was doing there and they told me it had a bird strike over the channel and had to an emergency landing,he was escorted by another by another Tornado and after he had come to a halt the escort did a very low pass over the runway. Regards Colin.