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    Airframe Family: Bucker Bu-181 Bestmann
    Latest Model:Bu-181C-2 Bestmann
    Last Military Serial:VN787 RAF
    Construction Number:501659
    Last Civil Registration:F-BBMY
    Compressed ID:Bucker Bu-181C-2 sn VN787 RAF cn 50...
    Latest Owner or Location:Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Bu-181C-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n RM+HE.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n VN787.
    Evaluated by the RAF post World War II.

    6 July 1949

    To Etat/Service de L Aviation Legere Et Sportive/Sals, Paris, Picardie with new c/r F-BBMY (181, 38).
    Based at Peronne St-quentin.

    17 May 1955

    Civil registration, F-BBMY, cancelled.

    June 2001

    Placed on display with Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin.
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    25 July 2012


    Photographer: Laurent Heyligen

    26 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Berlin-Kreuzberg, Brandenburg, Germany
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    Airliners.Net
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
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