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    Airframe Family: Percival 84 Jet Provost / 80/90/145/167 Strikemaster
    Latest Model:Jet Provost T.3A
    Last Military Serial:XN629 RAF
    Construction Number:PAC/W/13893
    Last Civil Registration:G-KNOT
    Compressed ID:Hunting Jet Provost T.3A sn XN629 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Suffolk Aviation Heritage Centre, Kesgrave, Ipswich, Suffolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1964

    Constructed as a Jet Provost T.3A by Hunting.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XN629.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BVEG.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-KNOT.

    26 May 1989


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Jet Provost T.3A of 1 Flying Training School at RAF Linton-on-Ouse in May 1989.

    From 19 August 1993 to 29 March 1994

    To Magnificent Obsessions Ltd with new c/r G-BVEG.

    From 29 March 1994 to 19 February 1997

    To Transair (uk) Ltd keeping c/r G-BVEG.

    From 19 February 1997 to 9 June 1999

    To Richard James Everett keeping c/r G-BVEG.

    9 June 1999

    To Richard Stephen Partridge-Hicks, Little Haugh Hall, Little Haugh, Norton, Bury Saint. Edmunds with new c/r G-KNOT (P84 JET PROVOST T3A, PAC/W/13893).

    2007

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Permantly withdrawn from use in 2007.

    To Area 51 Aviation, North Weald Airport, Harlow, Essex, England.
    The fuselage is stored behind the hangar.
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    Markings Applied: XN629

    21 June 2007

    Civil registration, G-KNOT, cancelled.

    20 June 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: In this 2009 photo - just the fuselage remains of this aircraft that has now been de-registered

    To Bentwaters Cold War Museum, Bentwaters Park, Rendlesham, Suffolk, England.
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    Scrapped.
    Reduced to the forward fuselage.

    To Suffolk Aviation Heritage Centre, Kesgrave, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Terry Fletcher
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