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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire FB.6
    Last Military Serial:U-1214 SwiAF
    Construction Number:55092
    Last Civil Registration:ZU-VMP
    Compressed ID:F+W Vampire FB.6 sn U-1214 SwiAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hendrik Venter

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vampire FB.6 by F+W at Emmen, Switzerland.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n U-1214.

    23 March 1991

    Sold by auction at Dubendorf AB Switzerland.

    From 5 September 1991 to 28 February 2008

    To Lindsay Wood Promotions Ltd with new c/r G-DHVV.

    30 August 1993


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Great Warbirds Airshow Wroughton 1993 (one of three Vampire T55s at the Show

    28 February 2008

    To Aviation and Computer Consultancy Ltd, Boulton Moor, Derby keeping c/r G-DHVV.

    4 January 2010

    Civil registration, G-DHVV, cancelled.

    1 November 2011

    To Hendrik Venter with new c/r ZU-VMP.

    11 November 2015


    Photographer: Mike Ward
    Notes: 2015 photo at Wonderboom Airport
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     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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