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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-106 Comet / HS Nimrod
    Latest Model:Nimrod MR.2
    Last Military Serial:XV250 RAF
    Construction Number:8025
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2 sn XV25...
    Latest Owner or Location:Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington Airport, York, York, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1970

    Constructed as a Nimrod MR.1 by Hawker Siddeley.

    21 January 1971

    First flight.

    21 February 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV250.

    21 February 1971

    Transferred to RAF Kinloss.

    June 1982

    Converted to a Nimrod MR.2 by Hawker Siddeley.
    At RAF woodford.

    10 June 1983

    First flight.
    First flight as an MR.2.

    June 1983

    Transferred to RAF Kinloss.

    27 July 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Dayton, OH, International Air Show and Trade Exposition

    27 July 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Dayton, OH, International Air Show and Trade Exposition

    27 July 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Dayton, OH, International Air Show and Trade Exposition

    9 June 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Kinloss Strike Wing Nimrod MR.2 on the flight-line at the 1990 Boscombe Down Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Airshow.

    31 March 2010

    Withdrawn from use.

    13 April 2010

    Placed on display with Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington Airport, York, York, England.
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    30 April 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington in the UK

    11 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Hawker Siddley Nimrod at Yorkshire Air Museum
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