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    Airframe Family: Vickers Varsity
    Latest Model:Varsity T.1
    Last Military Serial:WF382 RAF
    Construction Number:541
    Compressed ID:Vickers Varsity T.1 sn WF382 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Varsity T.1.

    2 April 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WF382.

    5 May 1976

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    New serial number assigned: 8872M RAF

    To Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin.
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    May 2002

    Placed on display with Berlins Allied Museum, Tegel Airport, Berlin, Berlin.
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    26 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Berlin-Tegel, Brandenburg, Germany

    April 2021

    To Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin.
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    12 June 2022


    Photographer: Heino Rhoden
    Notes: currently without wings
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    European Military Out of Service 2018 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airliners.Net
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Thorsten Ruchel
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