page_title: Vickers Valetta
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: Vickers Valetta / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: Vickers 664 Valetta T.3 'N-B' of RAF College Cranwell at Blackbushe Airport
context_page_description: The Vickers Valetta is a British twin-engine military transport aircraft of the late 1940s.
  It was an all-metal mid-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage.
context_section_description: The Valetta C.1 entered service with the RAF in 1948, replacing the Douglas Dakota with RAF Transport Command and with transport squadrons in the Middle and Far East. The Valetta was used to carry out parachute drops in the 1956 Suez Crisis, and was used to provide transport support for a number of other British Military operations in the 1950s and 1960s, such as during the Malayan Emergency  and operations in Aden.
   
  The Valetta C.2 was a VIP passenger transport and extra range.
  The Valetta T.3 was built to provide a navigational trainer for service with the RAF College at RAF Cranwell and with No.1 and No.2 Air Navigation Schools.  40 were delivered from August 1951, with the last being WJ487 in September 1952.
  18 Valetta T.3 aircraft were later converted to T.4 standard with a longer nose to fitted to accommodate a radar scanner in order to train crews in the AI (Airborne Interception) role.
caption: Vickers Valetta T.3 of the RAF College at Blackbushe airport in September 1956. Note the cabin-top astrodomes and aerials for navigational training
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