G-VIVM

  Back to AIRCRAFT

BAC Jet Provost T Mk 5P
Construction Number PAC/W/23907
ex RAF Serial XS230
 
Shares available in this aircraft - see membership page
 
Role and Equipment

A basic jet training aircraft with full dual controls as used by the RAF from the 1960's to the 1990's. VOR navigation along with a Garmin 150 GPS coupled to Skymap GPS moving map. Martin Baker Mk 4 ejection seats with PSP (Personal Survival Pack) containing dinghy and various survival aids. Pressurised cockpit and fully functional main and emergency demand oxygen system.

Leading Particulars

Length: 33 ft 8 in (10.26 m)
Span: 35 ft 2 in (10.72 m)
Max Takeoff Weight: 8200 lbs (3719 kgs)
Engine: Rolls Royce Viper 202 rated at 2450 lbs thrust
Max Speed Dive: 400 kts IAS (460 mph) or 0.73 M
Max Speed Straight and Level (~ 22,000 ft): 370 kts (426 mph)
Max Speed Straight and Level (sea level): 355 kts (409 mph)
Max Rate of Climb (Sea Level): 4000 ft/min
Time Sea Level to 25,000 ft: 9.8 mins
Service Ceiling: 36,700 ft
Takeoff Roll (sea level, nil wind, 20°C): 1420 ft (432 m)
Landing Roll (sea level, nil wind, 20°C): 2010 ft (612 m)

Hours / Landings / Fatigue (as of 31st March 2005)

Total Hours Airframe: 5500.50
Total Landings: 17576
Engine (ECU) Hours: 959.00
Engine TBO: 1800 hrs
Fatigue Index: 51.8568

History

Like its close relative above PAC/W/23907 was built by BAC in Warton in 1964 as a Mk 4 aircraft. After delivery to the RAF as serial number XS230 it was also retained in a maintenance unit and returned to BAC sometime in the late 1960's. The airframe was then used as a basis for creating a new model with a larger and pressurised cockpit, demand oxygen system and higher low level speed. This was to become the Mk 5 and PAC/W/23907 was one of two Mk 5P (prototypes) built. It was returned to the RAF in 1967 (still wearing serial number XS230) and was tested extensively at the RAF Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire prior to the production Mk 5 aircraft entering service with the RAF. On completion of trials the aircraft was kept at Boscombe Down and used for the next 25 years as a spin trainer with the Empire Test Pilots School making its last military flight on 14th July 1993. The aircraft was officially retired from RAF service in 1994. The aircraft was then used for a time as one half of the Transair display team before being transferred to the International Test Pilot School in 1998. Unfortunately this is the only one of the two prototypes to survive in complete airworthy condition.

Pictures

See the GALLERY page for recent pictures of the aircraft.

  Back to AIRCRAFT