Then Spitfires again........

[Gil Boyd]

Ha Ha I meant 2.5 Million + not a K on the end apologies now 2.5K now that would be cheap

[Sentryduty]

Reminds me of the tales of swamped and unrecovered armoured vehicles supposedly in CFB Gagetown, given the terrain, and sheer size of the base, it is certainly in the realm of possibility. However I have never heard anything more than legends swapped over pints.

[browningautorifle]

Exactly, the same stories abounded in camp Wainwright...with no substance.

[Colonel Enfield]

There's supposed to be some Wright Biplanes in the North Head Tunnels in Auckland, New Zealand as well - there clearly aren't (and if there ever had been, they'd have well and truly rotted away by now), but I think people love the "Abandoned interesting equipment just waiting to be discovered!" aspect of a story more than the truth that while military equipment does get misplaced, large things like aircraft would have been missed, even 60+ years ago.

[Gil Boyd]

I'll tell you where I buried one of my Dinky Centurion tanks when I was a kid if you cross my palm with silver, I am sure it scared the rabbits for a while stuck in their tunnel

[Sentryduty]

Exactly, the same stories abounded in camp Wainwright...with no substance.

However there is a pink Centurion tank parked off to the south end of the runway at CFB Edmonton, it was accompanied by a gutted T34(-85?) series tank, why it was pink I have no idea, but I did see it on some of the extended PT sessions we were subjected to.

Judging by google earth the Centurion is still there but the T34 has been removed.
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[Gil Boyd]

.................and Darren don't let anybody try to tell you over there it was owned by 22 SAS "Desert For the Use of"

A sensible answer to that, is that it was deemed at a period in our joint Military history to be the colour for all range activity, and I am sure someone more qualified will give us the real reason. We used to park up in the Police Launch at the entrance to the Wash and the River Nene at Holbeach Marshs Ranges where they parked seven large ships all painted Pink and some red. RAF Harriers/Jaguars at the time competed against F111's from USAF Lakenheath and Mildenhall. I won't be drawn into who was more accurate, but they had RAF roundels on the side of the fuselage. The USAF pilots enjoyed a spray up to target technique

There F5 pilots were always spot on though, strange that, maybe something to do with the airframe!!

[browningautorifle]

a pink Centurion tank

I missed that when I went to the 100th celebration...bet it was an arc marker in Suffield.