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    Airframe Family: Avro 696 Shackleton
    Latest Model:Shackleton MR.3
    Last Military Serial:XF708 RAF
    Compressed ID:Avro Shackleton MR.3 sn XF708 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Shackleton MR.3.

    1 March 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF708.

    From 1959 to 1964

    Transferred to 201SQN.

    From By 1965 to Circa 1967

    Transferred to 120SQN.

    1968

    Transferred to 203SQN, Northern Ireland.

    From 1969 to 1972

    Transferred to 203SQN, RAF Luqa, Malta.

    23 August 1972

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    Photographer: Norm Jukes

    27 September 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Shackleton MR.3/3 of 203 Squadron on display in the Summer of 1976 at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

    July 1996


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited at Imperial War Museum, Duxford

    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited at Imperial War Museum, Duxford

    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: in the Duxford conservation hanger


    Photographer: Norm Jukes
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