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    Airframe Family: Vickers 950/951/953 Vanguard / 953 Merchantman
    Latest Model:953C Merchantman
    Construction Number:713
    Last Civil Registration:G-APEJ
    Compressed ID:Vickers 953C cn 713 cr G-APEJ
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 953C.

    16 August 1961

    First flight.

    18 August 1961

    To BEA with new c/r G-APEJ.

    1 April 1972

    To British Airways keeping c/r G-APEJ.

    13 May 1976


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At London Heathrow

    13 December 1979

    To Air Bridge Carriers keeping c/r G-APEJ.

    8 April 1981

    Leased to Occitan Air.

    Circa 18 April 1981

    Returned from lease.

    13 March 1982


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: G-APEJ Vickers Vanguard 953F (Merchantman)Air Bridge Carriers, in partial ex-BEA livery - seen here landing at Heathrow

    24 December 1992

    Withdrawn from use.

    To Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England.
    Only the cockpit section survives here.
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    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge
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