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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire T.11
    Last Military Serial:XE998 RAF
    Construction Number:15678
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Vampire T.11 sn XE998...
    Latest Owner or Location:Solent Sky, Southampton, Southampton, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1955

    Constructed as a Vampire T.11.

    25 July 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XE998.

    Transferred to 8FTS.

    Transferred to 4FTS, RAF Valley.

    Transferred to 8FTS.

    Transferred to RAF Saint Athan.

    11 December 1967

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    11 December 1967

    To Hawker Siddeley Apprentice School, Woodford.

    To 723 Air Training Corps (ATC) Squadron, Wigan.

    To Solent Sky, Southampton, Southampton, England.
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    By January 2012

    Markings Applied: U-1215, XE998
    Painted in false Swiss Air Force markings to represent U-1215. The real U-1215 is with the Classic Air Force painted as XJ771 and registered as G-HELV.

    21 January 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Solent Sky Museum in Southampton

    21 January 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Solent Sky Museum in Southampton
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