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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra T.19
    Last Military Serial:WH904 RAF
    Construction Number:SH1647 / 71123
    Compressed ID:English Electric Canberra T.19 sn W...
    Latest Owner or Location:Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a Canberra B.2.

    8 February 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WH904.

    February 1954

    Transferred to 207 Squadron, RAF Marham, Norfolk.

    1956

    Transferred to 35 Squadron, RAF Marham, Norfolk.

    1956

    Converted to a Canberra T.11.
    With nose from Canberra B.2 WH651 housing an A.I radar.

    26 August 1958

    Transferred to 228 Operational Conversion Unit.
    Returned to service to train radar operators.

    Transferred to Target Facilities Squadron (TFS), RAF West Raynham, Norfolk.

    1960


    Photographer: Breeden Collection

    1963

    Transferred to 85 Squadron, RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire.
    Operated with markings: red and black chequers as squadron flash

    1966

    Redesignated as Canberra T.19.
    Radar modifications.

    Transferred to 7 Squadron, RAF Saint, Mawgan, Cornwall.

    20 November 1978

    Assigned to RAF Saint. Athan, South Glamorgan for storage.

    1980

    Withdrawn from use.
    Considered as export candidate by British Aircraft Corporation.

    By 1981

    Assigned to Marshalls of Cambridge for storage.

    1 October 1985

    Placed on display with Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.
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    26 October 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Newark Air Museum in the UK
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