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    Airframe Family: Bristol Beaufort
    Latest Model: VIII
    Last Military Serial:A9-555 RAAF
    Compressed ID:Department of Aircraft Production V...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wings Museum, Balcombe, Handcross, West Sussex, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a VIII by Department of Aircraft Production at Australia.

    4 January 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A9-555.

    Transferred to 100 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Tadji, Papa New Guinea.
    Operated with markings: QH-S

    21 March 1945

    Crashed.
    Damaged beyond repair in A take-Off accident, Tadji, Papa New Guinea.

    1974

    Transported by ship.
    Fuselage recovered from Tadji along several other Beauforts, and shipped to California.

    To Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation (MARC)/David Tallichet, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    March 2003

    To The Bristol Heritage Collection, Hessel Field, Clifton, TN.
    The forward and rear fuselage sections of A9-555 and the stern section of A9-182 were transport to Tennessee for restoration.
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    2008

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Transported by ship.
    Forward fuselage transported to Australia.

    March 2020

    To Wings Museum, Balcombe, Handcross, West Sussex, England.
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    25 July 2021


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Notes: The forward fuselage of A9-555 in the Wings Aviation Museum on 25 July 2021.
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