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    Airframe Family: British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) BAC-111
    Latest Model:111-539GL One-Eleven
    Last Military Serial:ZH763 DRA
    Construction Number:BAC.263
    Last Civil Registration:G-BGKE
    Compressed ID:British Aircraft Corporation (BAC)...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre, Newquay Cornwall Airport / Saint Mawgan Airport, Saint Mawgan, Cornwall, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 111-539GL.

    From 30 January 1980 to 10 June 1991

    To British Airways with new c/r G-BGKE.

    From 10 June 1991 to 1 March 1994

    To GEC-Marconi Avionics, Edinburgh Airport keeping c/r G-BGKE.
    As an electronics test-bed.

    March 1994

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Defence Research Agency with s/n ZH763.

    March 1994

    Transferred to DRA Farnborough.

    15 July 1994

    Transferred to DRA Boscombe Down.
    Further modified for electronics testing.

    April 2013

    To Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay Cornwall Airport/Saint Mawgan Airport, Saint Mawgan, Cornwall, England.
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    7 June 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay Airport

    7 June 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay Airport

    7 June 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay Airport

    To Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre, Newquay Cornwall Airport/Saint Mawgan Airport, Saint Mawgan, Cornwall, England.
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     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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