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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-112 Venom
    Latest Model:Sea Venom FAW.53
    Last Military Serial:N4-943 RAN
    Construction Number:12785
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Sea Venom FAW.53 sn N4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Australian Navy

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Venom FAW.53.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WZ943.

    27 February 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Navy with s/n N4-943.

    8 August 1958

    Damaged.
    Undershot the runway at Nowra, lost both oleo legs.

    June 1973

    Withdrawn from use.
    The last Sea Venom to fly with RAN.

    Placed on display.
    On a pole in Nowra Town.

    1982


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: Mounted on a pole in the town of Nowra, NSW circa 1982

    30 June 1988


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: Pole Mounted in the centre of Nowra, NSW

    Markings Applied: 876

    Fell off the pole and was damaged quite badly. Re- located to the rear of Australias Museum of Flight, without cockpit and forward fuselage.
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