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VAMPIRE/WL505

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Serial #: WL505
Construction #:
  22100
Civil Registration:
  G-FBIX
  Model(s):
  FB. Mk. 9
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2012

History:
Delivered to Royal Air Force as WL505, December 6, 1951.
- Transferred to No.19 MU St Athan for storage, September 10, 1958.
-- Declared none effective on December 17, 1959.
- Transferred to No.320 ATC Squadron, October 12, 1961.
-- Used for ground instructional use.
RAF Museum, RAF St. Athan, 1987-1989.
- Sold at auction, April 14, 1989.
D.G. Jones, Bridgend, Wales, April 21, 1989-2012.
- Registered as G-FBIX, July 24, 1991.
- Under restoration to airworthy, Cranfield, UK.

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

Research Assistance:
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