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    Airframe Family: Armstrong Whitworth AW-650/660 Argosy
    Latest Model:Argosy E.1
    Last Military Serial:XR143 RAF
    Construction Number:6798
    Last Civil Registration:G-BFVT
    Compressed ID:Armstrong Whitworth Argosy E.1 sn X...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation, Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, Iowa

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an Argosy C.1.

    26 February 1964

    First flight.

    1 April 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XR143.

    Transferred to 267 Squadron, RAF Benson, Oxfordshire.

    Converted to an Argosy E.1.

    July 1969

    Transferred to 115 Squadron, RAF Benson, Oxfordshire.

    6 July 1972


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Argosy E.1 of 115 Squadron on final approach to RAF Kinloss in the Summer of 1972.

    January 1976

    Transferred to 115 Squadron, RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.

    24 January 1978

    Last operational flight at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BFVT (AW660 ARGOSY, 6798).

    29 June 1978

    To Via Nova International Limited, Bournemouth, Dorset keeping c/r G-BFVT.

    17 July 1978

    Civil registration, G-BFVT, cancelled.

    To Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation, Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, IA.
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