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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-106 Comet / HS Nimrod
    Latest Model:Nimrod MR.2
    Last Military Serial:XV229 RAF
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2 sn XV22...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Manston History Museum, RAF Manston, Woodchurch, Kent, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Nimrod MR.1 by Hawker Siddeley.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV229.

    Transferred to Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment.

    Markings Applied: 29

    Converted to a Nimrod MR.2 by Hawker Siddeley.
    Converted to Nimrod MR.2 by British Aerospace at Woodford, Cheshire.

    Transferred to 42 Squadron, RAF Saint. Mawgan, Cornwall.

    25 May 1985


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Nimrod MR.2 of 42 Squadron at RAF St. Mawgan on display at the 1985 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    20 July 1991


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Nimrod MR.2 of 201 Squadron on display at the 1991 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    By September 1993

    Transferred to 206 Squadron, RAF Kinloss.

    25 May 2010

    Ferry flight. Delivered to UK Ministry of Defence-Defence Fire Training and Development Centre (DFTDC), Woodchurch, Kent, England.
    Delivered to the Manston Airport for use as an evacuation trainer.
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    17 December 2020

    To RAF Manston History Museum, RAF Manston, Woodchurch, Kent, England.
    Forward fuselage.
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    28 June 2022


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton


    Photographer: Unknown
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