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    Airframe Family: Percival P-56 Provost
    Latest Model:Provost T.1
    Last Military Serial:WW450 RAF
    Construction Number:PAC/F/265
    Last Civil Registration:G-BZRE
    Compressed ID:Percival Provost T.1 sn WW450 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Provost T.1.

    14 March 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WW450.

    Transferred to 4 Flying Training School, RAF Feltwell, Norfolk.

    2 November 1960

    New serial number assigned: 7689M RAF
    Maintenance serial. Fitted with the wings from WW421 by 4 SoTT at RAF St Athan in September 1960.

    15 May 2001

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BZRE.
    Registered with the c/n of Provost WW421 (PAC/F/234).

    22 February 2005

    Civil registration, G-BZRE, cancelled.

    10 October 2005

    To Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
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    25 March 2011


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Bournemouth

    16 May 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Composite Percival Provost T1 at Bournemouth Aviation Museum. Fuselage of WW450 and Wings of WW421

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: P B, WW421
    Aircraft is a composite of the fuselage of WW450 and the wings from WW421. The construction number listed above applies to the fuselage.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100 to WZ999 (1996, ISBN 0 85130 314 5) by James Halley
    Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100 to WZ999 (2003, ISBN 0 85130 321 8) by James Halley
    Wrecks and Relics
    Internet Sources
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    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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