<p>c/n S.62
Built 1975 as a standard Jaguar GR.1 and served with 14sqn and 226 Operational Conversion Unit.
Modified in 1978 for control by ‘Fly-By-Wire’ rather than mechanical systems. This would later become known as Active Control Technology, or ACT. First flew after modification in 1981 and continued testing until late 1984, some 96 test flight having been carried out. The technology was later used in the British Aerospace Experiment Aircraft Programme (EAP) and ultimately in the Eurofighter 2000 / Typhoon.
After retirement XX765 was used briefly for ground tests including dry paint stripping, but in 1991 she was presented to Loughborough University as a ground teaching aid, where she replaced the somewhat elderly Jet Provost 1 ‘G-AOBU’. XX765 was herself replaced by the EAP in 1996 and then moved to Cosford for display. She went to Warton for repainting in 1999 and returned to Cosford late the same year resplendent in her original ‘Raspberry Ripple’ livery.
She remains on display in the ‘Test Flight’ hangar.
RAF Museum, Cosford, Shropshire, UK.
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9th June 2018
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/65001151@N03">Alan Wilson</a> from Peterborough, Cambs, UK
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/32112214257/">SEPECAT Jaguar ACT ‘XX765’</a>