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    Airframe Family: Handley Page Victor
    Latest Model:Victor K.2
    Last Military Serial:XL160 RAF
    Construction Number:HP80/63
    Compressed ID:Handley Page Victor K.2 sn XL160 RA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Victor B.2 by Handley Page at Radlett, Herts..

    26 January 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XL160.

    From 25 October 1968 to After 21 May 1970

    Converted to a Victor K.2.
    At Handley Page Ltd then Hawker Siddeley.

    4 May 1976


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: XL160 - Handley Page Victor K.2 - 55 Squadron - RAF Marham - Initially delivered in January 1961 as a B.2. Converted to a K.2 between October1968 and May 1970.Withdrawn from use in 1986 and used for battle damage repair tests at Marham until 1984

    By 1980

    Transferred to 57 SQN, RAF Marham.

    Circa 1980


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common.

    26 June 1981


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Landing at Greenham Common.

    9 April 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Marham Airshow

    9 April 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    2 July 1986

    New serial number assigned: 8910M RAF

    2 July 1986

    Transferred to Battle Damage Repair, RAF Marham.

    June 1994

    Scrapped.
    At RAF Marham with exception of nose section.

    After June 1994

    To Blyth Valley Aviation Collection, Walpole, Suffolk.
    Nose section only.

    29 July 2005

    Placed on display with Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk, England.
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    20 July 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Flixton, Suffolk, UK
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     John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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