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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-112 Venom
    Latest Model:Sea Venom FAW.53
    Last Military Serial:N4-903 RAN
    Construction Number:12760
    Last Civil Registration:N903WZ
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Sea Venom FAW.53 sn N4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Venom FAW.53.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Navy with s/n WZ903.

    27 February 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Navy with s/n N4-903.

    1966

    Sold for scrap.

    By 1972

    Noted at Warbirds Aviation Museum, Mildura.

    June 1972


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Two former Royal Australian Navy DH.112 Sea Venom FAW.53s were on display: here is WZ903 coded M-871.In 1989 as the museum was shutting down, both were sold to a US warbird restorer. WZ903 was registered N903WZ

    18 February 1992

    To Amjet Aircraft Corporation, Blaine, MN with new c/r N903WZ.

    To Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    29 January 2018

    Civil registration, N903WZ, cancelled.
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