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    Airframe Family: Supermarine Swift
    Latest Model:Swift FR.5
    Last Military Serial:WK281 RAF
    Compressed ID:Supermarine Swift FR.5 sn WK281 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex - West, England

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    Dates

    Event

    31 October 1956

    Constructed as a Swift FR.5.

    5 November 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK281.

    10 April 1959

    Transferred to 79SQN.

    20 January 1961

    Assigned to 60 MU, RAF Church Fenton for storage.

    31 January 1961

    New serial number assigned: 7712M RAF

    12 April 1961

    Withdrawn from use.
    Declared non-effective.

    Circa 1961

    Transferred to 14 Air Training Corps SQN, RAF Uxbridge.

    14 March 1967

    Transferred to RAF Colerne.

    1975

    Transferred to RAF Finningley.

    1977

    Transferred to RAF Swinderby.

    1979

    Transferred to RAF Saint Athan, Historic Aircraft Collection.

    12 September 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF St Athan Battle of Britain Air Day

    1989

    To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
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    Loaned to Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust, Tangmere, Sussex-West, England.
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    2006


    Photographer: Andy West
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     World Military Out of Service 2008 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     South Wales Aviation Group
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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