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Serial #: VX653 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: G-BUCM |
Model(s): FB Mk. 11 Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2002 |
History:
Built by Hawker Aircraft Company, 1949.
Delivered to Royal Navy as VX653.
- BOC: ?
- SOC:
- Allocated to 736 Squadron and RNAS Culdrose.
-- Damaged during landing after 320 hours on airframe.
--- Repaired.
- Reconditioned and sent to RNAS Gosport.
- Transferred to RNAS Anthorn.
- Transferred to 811 Squadron at Arbroath, Scotland.
- Port mainplane replace in 1953.
- Stored RNAS Anthorn, 1955.
- Transferred to Airwork Ltd,, Bournemouth, 195?-1960.
- Transferred to RNAS Lossiemouth.
-- Stored RAF Museum, Hendon, 1972-1991.
The Fighter Collection, Duxford, November 1991-1992.
- Arrived by road, November 24, 1991.
- Stored.
Patina Ltd/The Fighter Collection, Duxford, 1992-2002.
- Registered as G-BUCM, February 26, 1992.
- Under Restoration to fly.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Photo Source(s):
Ben Rodgers
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