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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra TT.18
    Last Military Serial:WJ614 RN
    Construction Number:HP/HI/181B
    Last Civil Registration:N76765
    Compressed ID:English Electric Canberra TT.18 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Falcon Field (KFFZ), Phoenix, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a Canberra B.2.
    By Handley Page Ltd under contract to English Electric Aircraft Ltd

    3 May 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WJ614.

    May 1954

    Transferred to 35SQN, RAF Marham.

    Transferred to 6 SQN, RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus.

    Transferred to Royal Air Force Flying College, RAF Manby.

    Transferred to 98 SQN, RAF Tangmere.

    Transferred to 85 SQN, RAF Binbrook.

    24 February 1972

    Assigned to Salmesbury for storage.

    1974

    Converted to a Canberra TT.18.

    9 July 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WJ614.

    9 July 1974

    Transferred to FRADU, RNAS Yeovilton.
    Operated with markings: 846

    From March 1981 to 8 December 1982

    A full refurbishment carried out at Salmesbury.

    From 16 November 1992 to July 1993

    Assigned to RAF Saint Athan for storage.

    To Bill McCoy with new c/r N76765.

    25 September 1995

    Ferry flight.
    On 17th August 1995, WJ614 took off from St Athan to begin the first leg of its trip, but due to a snag returned less than an hour later.Following a further months work the aeroplane successfully left the UK on 25th September 1995, routing through Keflavik, Gander, Drayton and finally to its new home at Phoenix Field in Arizona.

    6 October 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for N76765 (TT18) issued.

    18 April 2000

    To Jet Aviation Historical Society Inc, Phoenix, AZ keeping c/r N76765.
    Maintained by David Ridsdales European Warbird Organisation.

    21 June 2002


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: This ex Royal Navy Canberra TT.18 has been exported to the USA, still with the yellow and black hatching from its target towing days. WJ614/ 846 is also N76765. Its parked at Falcon Field in this picture, but it moved to the Pima Air Museum in 2015.

    To Falcon Field (KFFZ), Phoenix, AZ.
    Held in open store at its home airfield, and has not now flown for several years.
    View the Location Dossier

    10 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    4 November 2013

    Civil registration, N76765, cancelled.

    7 November 2020


    Photographer: Richard Talley
    Notes: Dismantled and in storage at Pima Air Museum
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    The FRADU Hunters Web-Site by Mark Russell
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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