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    Airframe Family: Armstrong Whitworth AW-650/660 Argosy
    Latest Model:Argosy C.1
    Last Military Serial:XP409 RAF
    Construction Number:6764
    Compressed ID:Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:Defence Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Centre, RAF Winterbourne Gunner, Salisbury, Wiltshire

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    Dates

    Event

    1962

    Constructed as an Argosy C.1 by Armstrong Whitworth at Bitteswell.

    11 May 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XP409.

    26 September 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n 8221M.
    Instructional airframe at Halton.

    19 May 1976


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 8221M / XP409 - Argosy C.1 - RAF Halton Joined 105 Squadron 11 May 1962 and later pooled into 114/267 Squadrons during 1968. Transferred to 70 Squadron in May 1970 but then allocated to to 27MU at Shawbury later in the year. To Halton as 8221M on 26 September 1972

    March 1979

    To Defence Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Centre, RAF Winterbourne Gunner, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

    By 1985

    Scrapped.
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