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    Airframe Family: Scottish Aviation Pioneer
    Latest Model:Pioneer CC.1
    Last Military Serial:XL703 RAF
    Construction Number:143
    Compressed ID:Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC.1 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a Pioneer CC.1.

    5 December 1956

    First flight.

    18 December 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XL703.

    Served in Libya and the far east while based in Singapore.

    1969

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.
    Retired.

    Assigned to RAF Henlow for storage.

    September 1982

    Placed on display with Air Space Museum, Manchester.

    1989

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
    This is only one of two known surviving Pioneers in the world.
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    Markings Applied: XL703

    19 September 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: XL703 in camouflage c/s at RAF Museum, Cosford, UK

    1 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At RAF Museum at Cosford in the UK

    21 May 2012


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup
    Notes: The Pioneers STOL performance allowed the RAF to operate from jungle airstrips in Malaysia and Borneo. This aircraft is one of two surviving examples.

    28 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo ar RAF Museum at Cosford

    2014

    Placed on display with RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
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    Terry Fletcher
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