May Update at Newark Air Museum (May 2023)
At Newark Air Museum along with the restoration work being undertaken on Fairey Gannet
XP226; further museum volunteers have recently started work on a partial repaint of de
Havilland Sea Vixen XJ560
As with the Gannet, this work had been planned for 2022, but it was delayed by the major
repaint work required on Vulcan XM594. In recent weeks some surface preparations work has
been carried out on the upper surfaces of the Sea Vixen and in recent days the first primer has
now been applied to the nose.
