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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-106 Comet / HS Nimrod
    Latest Model:Comet 4C
    Last Military Serial:XS235 RAF
    Construction Number:6473
    Last Civil Registration:G-CPDA
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Comet 4C sn XS235 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets Collection, Great Barrington Airport, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire / Leics, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Comet 4C.
    The last Comet to fly, Comet 4C Canopus (XS235) is kept in running condition at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, where fast taxi runs are regularly conducted

    26 September 1963

    First flight.

    2 December 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XS235.

    23 July 1983


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1983 photo of DH Comet at Greenham Common

    By March 1987


    Photographer: Steven Tornblom Collection

    By March 1987


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    1993


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: Fairford UK

    28 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: On finals to Fairford.

    10 August 2000

    To unknown owner with c/r G-CPDA.

    10 August 2000

    To C Walton Ltd, Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, Bruntingthorpe, Lutterworth keeping c/r G-CPDA.

    To Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets Collection, Great Barrington Airport, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire/Leics, England.
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    27 March 2008

    Civil registration, G-CPDA, cancelled.

    18 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: The last Comet to fly, Comet 4C Canopus (XS235),is kept in running condition at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, where fast taxi runs are regularly conducted
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    Terry Fletcher
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