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    Airframe Family: Bristol Beaufighter
    Latest Model:Beaufighter IIF
    Compressed ID:Bristol Beaufighter IIF
    Latest Owner or Location:Aerospace Bristol, Bristol, Gloucestershire - South, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Beaufighter IIF.

    Circa 1945

    Reassembled.
    Demonstration model built consisting of Beaufighter forward and centre fuselage.

    July 1945

    Displayed in Royal Australian Air Force exhibition at Magasin du Printemps shop, Paris, France.

    By January 1955

    To College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, England.

    June 1966

    To Royal Air Force Museum, RAF Henlow.

    1972

    Placed on display with Royal Air Force Museum Hendon.

    From 27 November 1991 to 26 February 1997

    Loaned to The Fighter Collection, Duxford, England.
    For use as pattern for TFCs Beaufighter project.

    From 11 December 2000 to 17 December 2004

    Loaned to National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.
    View the Location Dossier

    2017

    Loaned to Aerospace Bristol, Bristol, Gloucestershire-South, England.
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    Assigned s/n 463 with the British Aviation Preservation Council for administrative purposes. It did not serve with this service.

    10 March 2018


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