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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra B(i).8
    Last Military Serial:WT346 RAF
    Construction Number:71506
    Compressed ID:English Electric Canberra B(i).8 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Force Museum, Wigram Airport, Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island

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    Constructed as a Canberra B(i).8.
    Manufactured at Preston in 1955/56 -it was moved to the Colerne Museum on 17 June 1972 - to the Cosford Aerospace Museum in April 1976.-The aircraft was obtained by Mr Albert Stone, a scrap dealer.The aircraft waspurchased from Mr Stone and shipped to New Zealand where it arrived in April 1994

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WT346.

    To Air Force Museum, Wigram Airport, Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island.
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    1 August 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Canberra B(I).8 of 16 Squadron was displayed at Cosford Aerospace Museum in the Summer of 1976, having arrived there in April 1976.

    19 March 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Airforce Museum of New Zealand at Wigram, Christchurch, South Island.
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