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    Airframe Family: Gloster Javelin
    Latest Model:Javelin FAW.9
    Last Military Serial:XH897 RAF
    Compressed ID:Gloster Javelin FAW.9 sn XH897 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Javelin FAW.7.

    30 December 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XH897.

    12 March 1959

    Transferred to 25 Squadron.

    Transferred to 5 Squadron.

    12 April 1960

    Converted to a Javelin FAW.9.
    The work was carried out by GAC.

    12 April 1960

    Transferred to Gloster Aircraft Company.
    Sent to Gloster for conversion.

    To 25 Squadron.

    3 January 1961

    Transferred to 33 Squadron.

    21 November 1962

    Transferred to 5 Squadron.
    Transferred to, then to 27 MU.

    20 July 1965

    To Bristol Siddeley Engines, Bristol.
    Transferred to Bristol Siddeley Engines to investigate a compressor blade vibration problem.

    19 January 1967

    Transferred to Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment.
    Transferred to AAEE for Position Error Correction, photo chase duties and calibration of Concode and MRCA aircraft.

    Transferred to Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment.
    Used to calibrate the Aberporth range in Wales for supersonic measurements for the Concorde programme.

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    19 September 1970


    Photographer: John Smith
    Notes: 1970 photo taken at RAF Coltishall

    15 September 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Javelin FAW.7 of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment on the flight line at the 1973 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    24 January 1975

    Last flight.
    Flown from Boscombe Down to Imperial War Museum, Duxford. Total flying time for XH897 was 1,690 hours.

    5 July 1975


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1975 photo at Duxford - ex. Royal Air Force, A Squadron, A and AEE Boscombe Down

    20 August 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Without nose-art at Duxford, UK
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