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    Airframe Family: Royal Aircraft Factory BE-2
    Latest Model:BE-2c
    Last Military Serial:2699 RFC
    Compressed ID:Rushton, Proctor and Co. BE-2c sn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a BE-2c by Rushton, Proctor and Co..

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Flying Corps with s/n 2699.

    February 1917

    Transferred to 50 (Home Defence) SQN, RFC, Dover.

    Transferred to Various Night Training Squadrons.

    1918

    Transferred to 51SQN, RAF.

    Crashed.
    Circumstances unknown.

    13 May 1919

    Withdrawn from use.

    19 September 1919

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    1919

    To Imperial War Museum, Lambeth, London, London, England.
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    1988

    Contracted to Skysport Engineering Ltd for work on the airframe.
    Restored by SkySport for the IWM.

    2007


    Photographer: Andy West

    2013

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
    Moved to Duxford whilst the IWM South Lambeth has major renovations to the buildings.
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    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford
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    Robert Nichols
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