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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-106 Comet / HS Nimrod
    Latest Model:Nimrod AEW.3
    Last Military Serial:XV263 RAF
    Construction Number:8038
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Nimrod AEW.3 sn XV2...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brough Airfield, Brough, Yorkshire - East, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1972

    Constructed as a Nimrod MR.1 by Hawker Siddeley.

    Circa 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV263 and operated with these markings: 63.

    25 July 1979


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: XV263 : HS Nimrod MR.1 : RAF at Culdrose

    By September 1984

    Converted to a Nimrod AEW.3 by Hawker Siddeley.
    Displayed at Farnborough Air Show in 1984.

    By 1989

    New serial number assigned: 8967M RAF

    By 1989

    Transferred to Air Engineer SQN, RAF Finningley.
    As a Ground Instruction Airframe.

    23 September 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Finningley Battle of Britain At Home Day

    To Avro Heritage Centre, Woodford Airport, Woodford, Cheshire East, England.
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    Based at Brough Airfield, Brough, Yorkshire-East, England.
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    2011

    Scrapped.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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