Latest addition to the burgeoning Old Sarum-based Boscombe Down Aviation Collection is Beagle Basset XS743, which has been donated by QinetiQ. and will soon move from its long-term home at Boscombe Down. First flown in February 1964, XS743 spent more than 40 years of its 50-year flying career at Boscombe, predominantly with the Empire Test Pilots' School. It is estimated that about 1,000 test pilots and flight test engineers were trained in stability and control on XS743, which made its last flight on 7 November 2014.
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