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    Airframe Family: Gloster Javelin
    Latest Model:Javelin FAW.9
    Last Military Serial:XH903 RAF
    Compressed ID:Gloster Javelin FAW.9 sn XH903 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Gloucestershire Aviation Collections Jet Age Museum, Staverton Airport, Gloucestershire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1959

    Constructed as a Javelin FAW.9.

    6 March 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XH903.

    8 March 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gate guardian at RAF Innsworth wearing RAF Maintenance serial 7938M

    25 July 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Javelin FAW.9 was a gate guardian at RAF Innsworth before relocation at Staverton Airport.

    By 1993

    Placed on display with Gloucestershire Aviation Collections Jet Age Museum, Staverton Airport, Gloucestershire, England.
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    3 November 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Gate Guard at Gloucestershire Airport

    13 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the entrance to Gloucestershire Airport

    13 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the entrance to Gloucestershire Airport

    30 November 2013


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: Now re-located inside at the Jet Age Museum at Gloucestershire Airport
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