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Serial #: VR930 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: None Model: FB Mk. 11 Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2006 |
History: First flight, Feb. 23, 1948 Delivered to Royal Navy as VR930. - BOC: Mar. 8, 1948 at RNAS Culham. - To RN Fleet Requirements Unit, Bournemouth. - Withdrawn from use, Dec. 1961. - Total time on airframe, 1280hrs. Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Ltd, Dunsfold, Jan. 1963-1965. - Delivered from RNAS Lossiemouth. - Stored. RAF Museum, RAF Colerne, Jan. 1965-1975. - Initially gate guard, later stored. FAA Museum, RNAS Wroughton, 1975-1986. - Stored. RN Historic Flight, RNAS Yeovilton, 1992-2006. - Stored, trucked to Brough for restoration, June 9, 1994. - Rolled out as RN/VR930/110/0, May 1997. - Trucked from Brough to Yeovilton for completion, Sept. 12, 1997. - First flight, Mar. 1, 2001. - Suffered engine failure, landed safely at RNAS Yeovilton, Aug. 21, 2001. - Stored, at Yeovilton, 2002 - Rebuilt to airworthy by 2006. |
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. |
Photo Source(s): Andy Court Research Assistance: - |
