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    Airframe Family: Nord N-2500 Noratlas
    Latest Model:N-2501D Noratlas
    Last Military Serial:99+14 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:D152
    Last Civil Registration:D-9580
    Compressed ID:HFB N-2501D sn 99+14 Luftwaffe cn D...
    Latest Owner or Location:Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N-2501D by HFB at Germany.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n KA+163.

    New serial number assigned: GC+235 Luftwaffe

    New serial number assigned: GB+104 Luftwaffe

    New serial number assigned: 53+30 Luftwaffe

    24 November 1964

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. There were five fatalities. The military flight departed Bourges Airport (BOU/LFLD), France and was destined for Ahlhorn Air Base (EDNA), Germany. The accident occurred at near Ahlhorn Air Base (Germany) while on approach. Narrative: Crashed on approach in gusty and rainy weather and caught fire. The aircraft returned from a routine maintenance check at Bourges.
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    From 1972 to 1976

    To Bundesministerium der Verteidigung with new c/r D-9580.
    Ministry of Defence.

    1976

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 99+14.

    By June 2000

    Placed on display with Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin.
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    16 September 2012


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: At the Berlin Gatow Museum in Germany

    27 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Berlin-Gatow, Germany
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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 2018 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aviation Safety Network
    Spotting Mode
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Marcin Rogowski
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