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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire T.11
    Last Military Serial:XD599 RAF
    Construction Number:15451
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Vampire T.11 sn XD599...
    Latest Owner or Location:Sywell Aviation Museum, Sywell Aerodrome, Northhampton, Northamptonshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vampire T.11.

    15 October 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XD599.

    By November 1970

    Transferred to Central Air Traffic Control School, RAF Shawbury, Shropshire.

    15 December 1970

    To Gloucestershire Tecnical College, Staverton.

    28 November 1980

    To Blackbushe.

    1984

    To Hurn Airport, Bournemouth.

    18 August 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Hurn Air Show, Bournemouth, UK

    18 August 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at the TVS Airshow, Hurn

    18 March 1986

    To Caernarfon Air World.

    26 November 1997

    To Shobden.

    July 1999

    To Welshpool.
    Cockpit only.

    2001

    To Ingatestone.

    10 October 2004

    Placed on display with Sywell Aviation Museum, Sywell Aerodrome, Northhampton, Northamptonshire, England.
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    4 May 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Sywell, Northamptonshire, England
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    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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