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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra T.4
    Last Military Serial:WJ992 DRA
    Construction Number:R3/EA3/6617
    Compressed ID:English Electric Canberra T.4 sn WJ...
    Latest Owner or Location:GJD Engineering, Saint Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Canberra B.2.

    6 November 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WJ992.

    From 16 April 1956 to 26 October 1956

    Converted to a Canberra T.4.
    Carried out by English Electric.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Defence Research Agency with s/n WJ992.

    1 September 1991


    Photographer: unknown

    By 1992

    Transferred to DRA, RAE Bedford.

    By June 1992


    Photographer: Unknown

    13 June 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAE Boscombe Down Air Show

    21 May 1994

    To Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
    Used as a rescue trainer.
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    4 May 2009


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Bournemouth-Hurn, England

    February 2021

    To GJD Engineering, Saint Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Wrecks and Relics
    Internet Sources
     South Wales Aviation Group
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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