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    Airframe Family: Percival P-56 Provost
    Latest Model:P-56 Provost
    Last Military Serial:XF603 RAF
    Construction Number:PAC/F/311
    Last Civil Registration:G-KAPW
    Compressed ID:Percival P-56 sn XF603 RAF cn PAC/F...
    Latest Owner or Location:Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire - Central, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-56.

    From 27 March 1953 to 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF603.

    12 September 1967

    To Bristol Technical College, Bristol, UK.
    As Ground Instruction airframe.

    22 September 1997

    To Timothy John Manna, Pedlars Barn, Newsells Village, Barkway, Royston SG8 8DE with new c/r G-KAPW.

    17 December 2001

    To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade SG18 9ER keeping c/r G-KAPW.

    17 December 2001

    To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade with new c/r G-KAPW.

    18 December 2001

    To Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    21 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Part of the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2013 photo taken at Old Warden

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2013 photo taken at Old Warden

    2016

    17 July 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: departing RAF Fairford RIAT


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    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Vimeo

    Individual Contributors
    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Graham

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