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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire T.11
    Last Military Serial:XD459 RAF
    Construction Number:15523
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Vampire T.11 sn XD459...
    Latest Owner or Location:La Marsaudiere, Saix, Tours, Cinq-Mars-la-Pile

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vampire T.11.

    9 August 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XD459.

    6 January 1972

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    26 October 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at North Weald, Essex, England

    22 January 2019

    To La Marsaudiere, Saix, Tours, Cinq-Mars-La-Pile.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100 to XZ999 by James Halley
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    United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    John Bennett
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