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This page last updated on 30th August 2007

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If you have any changes to this list please let me know. Some serial numbers are also links to a page with a recent(ish) picture of the preserved aircraft (on the Survivors pictures pages). The Gulf War veterans have nose art names listed, though the actual aircraft are not necessarily still in their desert pink paint schemes now (e.g. XW530 at Elgin).

COMPLETE AIRCRAFT

NA.39
Serial	Owner & location
XK488	Fleet Air Arm Museum (stored), RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset

S.1
Serial	Owner & location
XK532	Highland Aircraft Museum, Inverness, Scotland
XN923	Gatwick Aviation Museum, Charlwood, Surrey
XN953	Fleet Air Arm Fire School (poor state), Predannack airfield, Cornwall
XN957	Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset
XN964	Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe Show Ground, Nottinghamshire

S.2
Serial	Owner & location
XK526	RAF Honington (gate guard), near Thetford, Suffolk
XN974	Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire
XV361	Ulster Aviation Society, Langford Lodge Airfield, near Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland

S.2B
Serial	Owner & location
XT288	National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Lothian, Scotland
XV168	BAe Brough (gate guard), near Hull, East Yorkshire
XV333	Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset
XV350	East Midlands Aeropark, East Midlands Airport, Leicestershire
XV359	Andrew Landon, Topsham, Exeter, Devon
XV863	Weston Aerodrome ('Debbie, Sea Witch'), Dublin, Eire
XV864	Defence Fire Services Central Training Establishment (crash rescue/fire training), Manston Airfield, Kent
XV865	Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire
XW530	Ian Aitkenhead, Buccaneer Service Station, on the A941/North edge of Elgin, Grampian, Scotland
XW544	Rob Goldstone, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire
XW547	RAF Museum ('Pauline, Guinness Girl'), Hendon, London
XX885 (G-HHAA)	Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd. (restoration to fly), RAF Scampton ('Caroline, Hello Sailor' - restoration to fly), Lincolnshire
XX889	Buccaneer Society, Kemble, Gloucestershire
XX894	Guy Hulme, Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire
XX895	Privately owned, near Bicester, Oxfordshire
XX897	Quicksilver, Bournemouth Aviation Museum, Hurn, Dorset
XX900	British Aviation Heritage, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire
XX901	Yorkshire Air Museum ('Kathryn, The Flying Mermaid'), Elvington, North Yorkshire
ZU-AVI (ex XW988)	Classic Jets (flyer), Cape Town, South Africa
ZU-BCR (ex XW987)	Classic Jets (flyer), Cape Town, South Africa
ZU-NIP (ex XW986)	Ian Pringle (flyer), Classic Jets, Cape Town, South Africa

S.2C
Serial	Owner & location
XV344	DERA (gate guard in Qinetiq Complex), Farnborough airfield, Hampshire

S.50
Serial	Owner & location
412	SAAF Waterkloof (gate guard by living quarters), Pretoria, South Africa
414	SAAF Museum, SAAF Swartkop, Pretoria, South Africa
416	SAAF Museum, SAAF Ysterplaat, Cape Town, South Africa
421	SAAF Museum, SAAF Swartkop, Pretoria, South Africa
422	National Museum of Military History, Saxonwold, Johannesburg, South Africa

NOSE/COCKPIT/OTHER SECTIONS

MDC TEST RIG
Serial	Owner & location
Unknown	Privately owned, Kent

S.?
Serial	Owner & location
?	ATC, Mitcham, South London

S.1
Serial	Owner & location
XK533	National Museum of Flight (reserve hangar), East Fortune, Lothian, Scotland
XN928	Gary Trigg, Gravesend, Kent
XN967	City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Horsham St. Faith, Norfolk
'XN972' (really XN962)	RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire
XN979	David Burke, Aeroventure, Lakeside and Leisure Complex, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

S.2
Serial	Owner & location
N/A (test rig)	2157 Squadron ATC, Croydon, Greater London
N/A (simulator)	Flight Simulation Centre, Navenby, Lincolnshire

S.2A
Serial	Owner & location
XT277	Sue & Roy Jerman, Welshpool, Powys, Wales
XT284	Glenn Cattermole, Felixstowe, Suffolk
XV163	Action Events, Heemstede, Netherlands

S.2B
Serial	Owner & location
XN981	Privately owned (fuselage), Errol, Scotland
XN983	Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
XT280	Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum, Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
XV165	Privately owned, Kings Lynn, Norfolk
XV352	RAF Manston History Museum, London - Manston Airport, Kent
XV867	Highland Aircraft Museum, Inverness
XW527	Albino Panigari, Italy
XW528	Stored (rear fuselage only), Thirsk, Yorkshire
XW541	Sue & Roy Jerman, Welshpool, Powys, Wales
XW550	Rick Kelley, West Horndon, Essex
XX888	Tim Jones, Barnstaple, Devon
XX892	Privately owned, Perth, Scotland
XX893	Eoin McDonald & John Morgan, Portmoak Airfield, Fife
XX899	Robin Phipps, Midlands Air Museum, Coventry Airport, Warwickshire
XZ431	John Hoole, Shropshire

S.2C
Serial	Owner & location
XV337	Joe Goy, Diseworth, Leicestershire

S.2D
Serial	Owner & location
XK527	Privately owned, North Wales

S.2B XW988 where a Bucc belongs - at low level, Cape Town, summer 1998; Incredible Adventures

Unfortunately for those of us in the UK the only flying Buccaneers are in South Africa! Mike Beachyhead's Thunder City outfit operates no less than three and sell mega-holidays that include flights in the aircraft.