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HALIFAX/HR792

Halifax HR792 WRG# 0025545

Serial #: HR792
Construction #: ?
Civil Registration:
  None
  Model(s):
  Halifax Mk. II
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2016

History:
Delivered to RAF as HR792, 19??.
- Crashed on take-off, Stornoway, Jan. 13, 1945.
Fuselage to farm on Isle of Lewis for use as chicken coop, 19??.
Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, Yorks, May 1984-2016.
- Fuselage recovered from farm, Isle of Lewis, May 1984.
- Rebuilt with parts from LW687 & JP158, using mainplane from Hastings TG556.
- Displayed as LV709/Friday the 13th.





Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Photo Source(s):
Tony Chambers
Cees Broere

Research Assistance:
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