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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire T.55
    Last Military Serial:U-1208 SwiAF
    Construction Number:868
    Last Civil Registration:HB-RVF
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Vampire T.55 sn U-1208...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fliegermuseum (Swiss Flying Museum), Altenrhein Airport, Altenrhein, Saint Gallen

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vampire T.11.

    4 June 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n U-1008.

    Converted to a Vampire T.55.

    1 June 1957

    New serial number assigned: U-1208 SwiAF

    By August 1989

    Transferred to Advanced Flying School, Emmen.

    25 August 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Dubendorf Air Show

    25 August 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Dubendorf Air Show

    13 March 1991

    To Fliegermuseum Altenrhein with new c/r HB-RVF.

    23 March 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: During auction at Sion AFB, Switzerland

    Based at Fliegermuseum (Swiss Flying Museum), Altenrhein Airport, Altenrhein, Saint Gallen.
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    1 April 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Altenrhein, Switzerland
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Confederation Suisse
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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