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    Airframe Family: Hawker Nimrod
    Latest Model:Nimrod I
    Last Military Serial:S1581 RN
    Construction Number:41H-43617
    Last Civil Registration:G-BWWK
    Compressed ID:Hawker Nimrod I sn S1581 RN cn 41H-...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Fighter Collection, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Nimrod I.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n S1581.
    Third production aircraft.

    Transferred to 408 Flight, HMS Glorious.

    Markings Applied: 573

    April 1933

    Transferred to 803nas, HMS Glorious.
    Redesignation of 408 Flight.

    10 February 1938

    Crashed.
    Went down at Hal Far, Malta.

    1970

    Recovered.
    Removed from Coleys scrapyard.

    The substantial remains of S1581 were recovered from a scrapyard in West London in the early 1970s and donated to the RAF Museum. The remains passed to Viv Bellamy in the early 1980s to act as a pattern for his Fury replica.

    1994

    To Aero-Vintage.

    From 1994 to Circa April 2000

    Restored.

    From 13 September 1996 to 15 August 2002

    To Historic Aircraft Collection Ltd with new c/r G-BWWK.

    July 2000

    First post-restoration Flight.
    From Henlow flown by Flt Lt Charlie Brown.

    15 August 2002

    To Patina Ltd, Jersey (The Fighter Collection) keeping c/r G-BWWK.

    Based at The Fighter Collection, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    27 May 2012


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford Air Show

    27 May 2012


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    27 May 2012


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    27 May 2012


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford

    10 July 2016


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: Flying Legends Airshow 2016, Duxford, UK
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    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
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     John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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