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    Airframe Family: Blackburn Buccaneer
    Latest Model:NA.39 Buccaneer
    Last Military Serial:XK488 MoD
    Construction Number:B3-03-58
    Compressed ID:Blackburn NA.39 sn XK488 MoD cn B3-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve collection - Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a NA.39.
    Third prototype

    31 October 1958

    First flight.

    8 January 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ministry of Defence with s/n XK488.
    Assigned to de Havilland Engines for development work on the Gyron Junior engines used in the Buccaneer S1.

    22 July 1967

    Placed on display with Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    19 July 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: XK488 as gate-guard at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, UK

    21 November 2001

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Fleet Air Arm Museum-Reserve collection-Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: On display at Public Open Day of the Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve Collection at Cobham Hall, RNAS Yeovilton in the UK

    30 March 2015


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Cobham Hall, Yeovilton, Somerset, England
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Fleet Air Arm Fixed-Wing Aircraft since 1946 by Ray Sturtivant
    Internet Sources
     Thunder and Lightnings
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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