Types you’ll see alongside
Blackburn Buccaneer, English Electric Canberra, Gloster Meteor, Harrier family, McDonnell Douglas Phantom.
Aircraft hub · 1950 · Early jet age
Prestwick’s bush aircraft — jungle strips, mountain ledges, no fuss. The gazetteer currently lists it at 3 UK museums.
Last verified 2026-10-11 against the gazetteer Compendium. Airframes move — confirm on museum pages before travel.
On charge
The gazetteer records 3 Scottish Aviation Pioneer & Twin Pioneer airframes (including cockpit sections and replicas where noted) across 3 UK collections, in 3 regions: London & Around, Wales, Scotland.
| Museum | City | Region | Airframes recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Museum Of FlightChecked 2026-10-08 | North Berwick | Scotland | Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer Series 3 G-BBVF |
| Royal Air Force Museum LondonChecked 2026-10-08 | London | London & Around | Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.2 XL993 |
| South Wales Aviation MuseumChecked 2026-10-08 | Barry | Wales | Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.2 fuselage G-AZHJ |
3D model
A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as XL993, the RAF Museum’s Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.2 (c/n 528), built at Prestwick in 1958 as a CC.1 and converted to CC.2 at Khormaksar in 1961, flown by Nos. 78 and 21 Squadrons in Aden and Bahrain until 1966 and presented to the RAF Museum in 1968, shown at Cosford for four decades and now at Hendon, with its two 640 hp Alvis Leonides 531 radials, painted in the desert transport scheme it carries today: sand upper surfaces and sides over black undersides, black wing struts and undercarriage legs, a black anti-glare strip below the windscreen, Type D roundels on the rear fuselage and under the wingtips, a white ‘XL993’ aft of the fuselage roundels and under the wings, red, white and blue fin flashes on the outer faces of the outer fins, the yellow emergency-rescue cut-out on the starboard nose, and bare-metal propellers with yellow tips. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.6 MB) · Plate 165 in The Hangar
Computed from the survey
Blackburn Buccaneer, English Electric Canberra, Gloster Meteor, Harrier family, McDonnell Douglas Phantom.
London & Around has 1 collection recording the type.
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.2; Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.2 fuselage.
Type notes
| Type | Scottish Aviation Pioneer & Twin Pioneer |
|---|---|
| UK museums holding one | 3 |
| Airframes recorded in this survey | 3 |
Serials are the gazetteer's survey snapshot of what each collection records on charge — restorations move between workshops and reserve hangars, so check the museum page for opening times and current display status before travelling. Every type across 119 museums is indexed in the Compendium.
Aircraft questions
The Aviation Gazetteer records 3 Scottish Aviation Pioneer & Twin Pioneer airframes in UK collections.
National Museum Of Flight has the most in this survey, with 1 recorded airframe.