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    Airframe Family: Percival 84 Jet Provost / 80/90/145/167 Strikemaster
    Latest Model:Jet Provost T.5A
    Last Military Serial:XW310 RAF
    Construction Number:EEP/JP/0974
    Last Civil Registration:G-BWGS
    Compressed ID:BAC Jet Provost T.5A sn XW310 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Jet Provost T.5A by BAC.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XW310.

    By June 1970

    Transferred to Number 1 Flying Training School, RAF Linton-On-Ouse, North Yorkshire.

    By June 1979

    Transferred to Royal Air Force College, RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire.

    From 18 August 1995 to 2 May 1997

    To James Stuart Everett with new c/r G-BWGS.

    From 2 May 1997 to 1 May 2003

    To Katharina Karin Gerstorfer keeping c/r G-BWGS.

    From 1 May 2003 to 26 August 2009

    To G-BWGS Ltd keeping c/r G-BWGS.

    26 August 2009

    To Mark Peter Grimshaw, Fishergate, Norwich keeping c/r G-BWGS.

    To Area 51 Aviation, North Weald Airport, Harlow, Essex, England.
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    15 June 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at North Weald, Essex, England

    13 July 2017

    Civil registration, G-BWGS, cancelled.
    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    September 2017

    To Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
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    4 March 2023


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
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    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
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     Andrew Appleton
    John Bennett
    Peter Nicholson
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