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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra B.2
    Last Military Serial:WK128 RAE
    Construction Number:R3/EA3/6642
    Compressed ID:English Electric Canberra B.2 sn WK...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Canberra B.2.

    23 June 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n WK128.
    The delivery date is provided.

    28 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Inbound from Llanbedr on finals to Fairford.

    By 14 August 1999


    Photographer: Unknown


    Photographer: Unknown

    November 2004

    Scrapped.
    At Llanbedr.

    To South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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    28 April 2019


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Notes: Forward fuselage of WK128 in the South Wales Aviation Museum
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     South Wales Aviation Group
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Ken Videan
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