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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Swift
    Latest Model:Swift F.4
    Last Military Serial:WK198 RAF
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Swift F.4 sn WK198 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a Swift F.1.

    26 September 1953

    Established World Air Speed record of 737.7 mph flown by Mike Lithgow.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK198 as a Swift F.4.

    1956

    Converted to a Swift F.4.

    3 June 1957

    Declared surplus to requirements.

    23 July 1957

    To No. 10 School of Technical Training, Kirkham, Lancashire.
    To.Maintenance serial 7428M allocated.

    New serial number assigned: 7428M RAF

    From 1962 to 1981

    To Unimetal, Failsworth.
    Stored in the Unimetal scrap yard.

    1975


    Photographer: Bob Latham
    Notes: Derelict in the Unimetals scrapyard in 1975

    17 May 1981

    Transported by ground. Delivered to North East Aircraft Museum, Usworth, Tyne and Wear.

    To RAF Millom Museum, Millom, Cumberland/Cumbria, England.
    Only the fuselage survives here.
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    From 2 April 2008 to September 2010

    To RAF Millom Museum, Cumbria.

    3 February 2011

    To Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England.
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    Markings Applied: WK198

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge
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