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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-106 Comet / HS Nimrod
    Latest Model:Comet C.2
    Last Military Serial:XK699 RAF
    Construction Number:6035
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Comet C.2 sn XK699 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Boscombe Down Museum, Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Comet C.2.

    2 February 1957

    First flight.

    20 February 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XK699.

    Transferred to 216 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire.
    Operated with markings: Sagittarius

    13 June 1967

    To RAF Museum Reserve Collection, Henlow.

    New serial number assigned: 7971M RAF

    From June 1987 to 2013

    To RAF Lyneham, Lyneham, Wiltshire, England.
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    By November 2013

    To Boscombe Down Museum, Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    1 February 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
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