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BEAUFORT/T9552

Bristol/DAP Beaufort

Serial #: T9552
Construction #: -
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  Beaufort Mk. V
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last Info: 2012

History:
Delivered to Royal Australian AF as A9-13.
- BOC: January 21, 1942.
- SOC: May 8, 1945.
- Assigned to RAAF 12 Repair & Salvage Unit, Tadji, Papua-New Guinea, 19??.
-- Reduced to components.
d'E. C. Darby & N. M. Armstong, Auckland, New Zealand, Circa 1974-1976.
- Hulk recovered from Tadji, Papua-New Guinea, circa 1974.
- Shipped to Auckland, NZ, circa 1974.
- Fitted with nose section and rear fuselage different aircraft.
- Stored in open, Ardmore, circa 1974-1976.
N. M. Armstrong/Australian Aerospace Museum, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1977-1989.
- Static restoration project, RAAF Point Cook, Victoria, Australia.
Jack McDonald, Melbourne-Essendon, Victoria, Australia, 1989-1991.
- Loaned to Museum of Army Flying, Oakey AB, Queensland, Australia circa 1990-2008.
- Displayed in partially resotored condition as A9-13/FX-B.
Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne Victoria, 2012.
- Displayed dismantled.

Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-5th Edition, 2008.
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