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    Airframe Family: Armstrong Whitworth AW-650/660 Argosy
    Latest Model:Argosy C.1
    Last Military Serial:XP447 RAF
    Construction Number:6779
    Last Civil Registration:N1430Z
    Compressed ID:Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:Milestones of Flight Air Museum, Fox Field, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1962

    Constructed as an Argosy C.1.

    7 March 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XP447.

    June 1970

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Shawbury.

    8 March 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Argosy C.1 named Horatious of 70 Squadron stored at RAF Kemble in March 1973 after being withdrawn from active service.

    November 1975

    Withdrawn from use.
    Moved to RAF Kemble for storage.

    10 February 1976

    To Management Jets International with new c/r N1430Z.

    1978


    Photographer: Dana A.Nichols
    Notes: At Elmendorf AFB, AK

    To Alaska Bureau of Land Management keeping c/r N1430Z.

    4 August 1989


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: At Fort Wainright, Alaska

    31 January 1992

    To Museum of Flying Inc, Santa Monica, CA keeping c/r N1430Z.

    To Milestones of Flight Air Museum, Fox Field, Palmdale, CA.
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    March 1993


    Photographer: John Meneely
    Notes: W.J. Fox Field, Lancaster, CA

    September 1996


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Lancaster - Fox Field, CA

    26 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited at the Milestones of Flight Museum, Lancaster, CA

    5 September 2014

    Civil registration, N1430Z, cancelled.

    2 March 2019


    Photographer: Jim Leslie
    Notes: This aircraft is stored at the defunct Museum of Flight air museum at Fox Field, Lancaster, CA.
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     Terry Fletcher
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