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    Airframe Family: Bristol 171 Sycamore
    Latest Model:Sycamore HR.52
    Last Military Serial:78+16 WGAF
    Construction Number:13473
    Last Civil Registration:D-HALB
    Compressed ID:Bristol Sycamore HR.52 sn 78+16 WGA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aeronauticum / Deutsche Luftschiff und Marineflieger Museum, Nordholz Airport, Nordholz, Lower Saxony

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sycamore HR.52.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the West German Air Force with s/n AS+330.

    New serial number assigned: LC+115 WGAF

    New serial number assigned: 78+16 WGAF

    To unknown owner with c/r D-HALB.

    July 1999

    Placed on display with Aeronauticum/Deutsche Luftschiff und Marineflieger Museum, Nordholz Airport, Nordholz, Lower Saxony.
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    16 May 2017


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Nordholz, Germany

    19 August 2020


    Photographer: Heino Rhoden

    August 2020

    Markings Applied: WE+543
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     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
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     John Bennett
    Thorsten Ruchel
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