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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-106 Comet / HS Nimrod
    Latest Model:Comet 4B
    Construction Number:6438
    Last Civil Registration:G-APYD
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Comet 4B cn 6438 cr G-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Science Museum, Wroughton, Swindon, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Comet 4B.

    21 January 1960

    To British European Airways Corporation with new c/r G-APYD.

    16 May 1960

    To Olympic Airways with new c/r SX-DAL.

    3 November 1969

    To British European Airways Corporation with new c/r G-APYD.

    27 February 1970

    To Channel Airways keeping c/r G-APYD.

    7 July 1972

    To Dan-Air Services keeping c/r G-APYD.

    23 May 1975


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: G-APYD : de Havilland Comet 4B : Dan-Air London at Glasgow Airport, Scotland - In the earlier Dan-Air livery with mainly white fin

    1 November 1979

    Last flight.
    To The Science Museum, Wroughton.

    23 November 1979

    Civil registration, G-APYD, cancelled.

    Placed on display with Science Museum, Wroughton, Swindon, England.
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