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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-106 Comet / HS Nimrod
    Latest Model:Comet 2R
    Last Military Serial:XK695 RAF
    Construction Number:6030
    Last Civil Registration:G-AMXH
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Comet 2R sn XK695 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre / Mosquito Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire / Herts, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Comet 2.

    21 August 1952

    First flight.
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    8 January 1953

    To British Overseas Airways Corporation, Brentford, Middlesex with new c/r G-AMXH.

    22 August 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XK695.
    The delivery date is provided.

    14 September 1956

    Transferred to 216 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire.
    Operated with markings: Perseus

    November 1961

    Converted to a Comet 2R.

    8 March 1963

    Transferred to 51 Squadron, RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire.

    10 January 1975

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
    Last flown on its delivery flight to the IWM.

    27 September 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Comet C.2R of 51 Squadron on display in the Summer of 1976 at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

    To RAF Newton.

    New serial number assigned: 9164M RAF
    Assigned maintenance serial number at RAF Newton.

    Scrapped.
    Reduced at Newton. Only the cockpit section/forward fuselage was preserved.

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Norm Jukes

    17 December 1995

    Placed on display with de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre/Mosquito Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire/Herts, England.
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    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    22 April 2011


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at De Havilland Aircraft Museum, London Colney, Hertfordshire, England
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