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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra B(I).6
    Last Military Serial:WT309 RAE
    Construction Number:71436
    Compressed ID:English Electric Canberra B(I).6 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, Farnborough Airport, Farnborough, Hampshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a Canberra B(I).6.

    9 December 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n WT309.

    Transferred to A and AEE, RAE Boscombe Down.

    18 August 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at the TVS Airshow, Hurn

    13 July 1985


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: On static display at IAT Fairford.

    January 1998

    To Parkhouse Aviation, Wycombe Air Park.
    Reduced to a nose section.

    February 1998

    To Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, Farnborough Airport, Farnborough, Hampshire, England.
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    2005


    Photographer: Andy West

    9 December 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo at Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
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