The unit's next incarnation saw it again training night fighter crews, this time at RAF Leuchars. The aircraft was again the Javelin and the training particularly emphasised preparing crews for overseas service. The unit was taken with this role for 18 months in 1965 and 1966 before disbanding again.[2]
Its final incarnation was as a training unit for the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II at RAF Coningsby. The unit was activated there in 1968 and eventually found its way to Leuchars again where it fell victim to post-Cold War cutbacks and was permanently disbanded in January 1991.
^Delve, Ken (2006). Northern England : Co. Durham, Cumbria, Isle of Man, Lancashire, Merseyside, Manchester, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Yorkshire. Ramsbury: Crowood. p. 169. ISBN1-86126-809-2.
^Lake, Alan (1999). Flying units of the RAF : the ancestry, formation and disbandment of all flying units from 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. p. 143. ISBN1-84037-086-6.
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