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    Airframe Family: Avro 748 Andover / HS-748 / BAe-748
    Latest Model:Andover CC.2
    Last Military Serial:XS790 RAF
    Construction Number:1562
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Andover CC.2 sn XS7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Boscombe Down Museum, Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an Andover CC.2 by Hawker Siddeley.

    26 June 1964

    First flight.

    10 July 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XS790.

    Circa 10 July 1964

    Transferred to Queens Flight, RAF Benson, Oxfordshire.

    13 May 1975


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: XS790 : HS748 Andover CC.2 : RAF, Queens Flight - In its original livery

    27 July 1975


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Andover CC.2 of the Queens Flight based at RAF Northolt on a visit to Carlisle in the Summer of 1975.

    31 January 1991

    Transferred to Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford.

    To Boscombe Down Museum, RAF Boscombe Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
    Only the cockpit section survived here.
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    To Boscombe Down Museum, Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
    Only the cockpit section survives here.
    View the Location Dossier

    1 February 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
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