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    Airframe Family: Handley Page HP-57/58/59/61/63/70 Halifax/Halton
    Latest Model:Halifax A.VII
    Last Military Serial:PN323 RAF
    Compressed ID:Handley Page Halifax A.VII sn PN323...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Halifax VII.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n PN323.

    Converted to a Halifax A.VII.

    From By 1955 to By 1961

    To Standard Telephones Company, Radlett.
    Used as a radio aerial test airframe with a single fin and without engines.

    1961

    Broken-up for scrap at Radlett.

    1961

    To Graham Trant.
    By this time only the forward fuselage section remained.

    From November 1965 to By 1980

    To Skyfame Museum, Staverton.

    Stored at Staverton.

    Stored at Duxford.

    By 1985

    To Imperial War Museum, Lambeth, London, London, England.
    Used as a walk-through exhibit.
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    2007


    Photographer: Andy West

    By 2014

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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     Robert Nichols
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