Tornado Trainers RAF which ones?

[dad's lad]

I've been buying kits for donkey's years and have acquired a number of Tornados from the following:

Airfix, Italeri, ESCI, Monogram, Hasegawa, Revell (all IDS/ECM/GR.1) plus Airfix and Revell F.3's.

 

My intention is to build them all for comparison purposes, not commentating on accuracy, but I have noticed that the earlier kits from Airfix, Italeri and ESCI all have dual control cockpits.

 

As I intend to build all OOTB, us there any way to identify by serial number, which RAF aircraft were twin stickers? I understand that a total of 17 were built for all 3 participating nations.

[Lord Riot]

The UK Serials website may help. In the first column those listed as BT… are ‘British Twin’, with BS being ‘British Single’.

 

http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=ZA

 

Similar for the F.3; build numbers starting AT (Air defence Twin).

 

http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=ZE

 

[dad's lad]

11 hours ago, Lord Riot said:

The UK Serials website may help. In the first column those listed as BT… are ‘British Twin’, with BS being ‘British Single’.

 

http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=ZA

 

Similar for the F.3; build numbers starting AT (Air defence Twin).

 

http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=ZE

 

That's great, I'll take a look later. 

[Richard E]

As a cross reference to the list from @Lord Riot the Tornado Data website includes a list compiled by Chris Corkish: the trainer versions of the RAF Tornado are shown on Chris' list as GR1T/GR4T and F3T. 

[dad's lad]

16 hours ago, Richard E said:

As a cross reference to the list from @Lord Riot the Tornado Data website includes a list compiled by Chris Corkish: the trainer versions of the RAF Tornado are shown on Chris' list as GR1T/GR4T and F3T. 

That's fantastic thanks.

[Pete in Lincs]

And if you're looking at photographs and you're not sure, check the nose leg.

Twin stickers had a torque link front and rear.

[dad's lad]

2 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said:

And if you're looking at photographs and you're not sure, check the nose leg.

Twin stickers had a torque link front and rear.

Now that's an interesting detail that I hadn't heard about. 

[Motley]

On 8/24/2024 at 7:18 PM, Pete in Lincs said:

And if you're looking at photographs and you're not sure, check the nose leg.

Twin stickers had a torque link front and rear.

 

Never hear that one before, when i worked on them i was told if the leg had a rear torque link or not was down to the Mod state of the leg. Just had a look at pictures of Pinky when it was at RIAT and cant see a torque link on the back and that was a a trainer version

[Pete in Lincs]

Interesting. All the trainers at Cottesmore had two. As far as I remember. Mind you, another thing I remember, the nose wheel steering motor was the same as a Phantoms. Just a different drive cog. As the guys found out when they tried fitting it . Somehow it got through the system and had the wrong section and ref.