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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire T.55
    Last Military Serial:U-1212 SwiAF
    Construction Number:972
    Last Civil Registration:N212TR
    Compressed ID:F+W Vampire T.55 sn U-1212 SwiAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Oklahoma City, OK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vampire T.55 by F+W at Emmen, Switzerland.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n U-1212.

    June 1989


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Sion Airshow, Switzerland; the only camouflaged Swiss AF T.55, repainted for film work

    23 January 1991

    Sold at auction by the Swiss AF at the Sion AB.

    23 May 1991

    To Eskilstuna Flygmuseum AB, NFZ-Flyg AB, Eskilstuna, Sweden with new c/r SE-DXT.

    From October 1991 to By 2007

    To Team Vampire, NFZ-Flyg AB, Eskilstuna, Sweden.

    Markings Applied: 8/A

    To Vasteras Flygmuseum, Kungliga Vastmanlands Flygflottilj AFB (formerly), Vasteras, Vastmanland.
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    Circa 25 October 1991

    Certificate of airworthiness for SE-DXT (DE HAVILLAND DH-115, 972) issued.

    7 September 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At RAF Leuchars final Air Show

    7 September 2013


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: Vampire T.55 at Leuchars in 2013. Its in Swedish marks and registered SE-DXT, but it is ex Swiss AF U-1212.

    16 August 2017

    Civil registration, SE-DXT, cancelled.

    13 May 2025

    To Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Oklahoma City, OK with new c/r N212TR.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Swedish Transport Agency
    Individual Contributors
     Jacqueline Fischer
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