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    Airframe Family: Vickers Wellington
    Latest Model:Wellington IA
    Last Military Serial:N2980 RAF
    Compressed ID:Vickers Wellington IA sn N2980 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Wellington IA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n N2980.

    16 November 1939

    First flight.

    Transferred to 149 Squadron, RAF Mildenhall.
    Operated with markings: R

    18 December 1939

    Flew on a raid to Heligoland Bright where over half of the 22 Wellingtons on the raid were shot down.

    Transferred to 37 Squadron, RAF Feltwell.

    31 December 1940

    During a training flight there was engine trouble resulting in a ditching into Loch Ness.

    1976

    Discovered by the American Loch Ness Monster hunters.

    21 September 1985

    Recovered.

    21 September 1985

    To Loch Ness Wellington Association.

    27 September 1985

    Transported by ground.
    Brooklands Museum, Weybridge.

    December 1985

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England.
    Moved to Weybridge.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 1997

    Restoration completed.
    Static restoration.

    Markings Applied: N2980, R

    2007


    Photographer: Andy West

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of Vickers Wellington 408 Mk1A Bomber at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of Vickers Wellington 408 Mk1A Bomber at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of Vickers Wellington 408 Mk1A Bomber at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of Vickers Wellington 408 Mk1A Bomber at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of Vickers Wellington 408 Mk1A Bomber at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Brooklands Museum
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
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