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    Airframe Family: General Aircraft GAL-60 Universal Freighter / B-101 Beverley
    Latest Model:Beverley C.1
    Last Military Serial:XB261 RAF
    Construction Number:1004
    Compressed ID:General Aircraft Beverley C.1 sn XB...
    Latest Owner or Location:Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Beverley C.1.

    5 July 1955

    First flight.
    Flown at Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XB261.

    To Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down, Wiltshire.
    Based with the AAEE for all its operational life.

    From October 1971 to 1983

    To Historic Aircraft Museum, Southend.

    14 May 1974


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: The Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend Airport contained this Beverley C.1 in 1974; it was scrapped in 1989, but the cockpit preserved.

    8 September 1976


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend

    1983

    To Ian Huddlestone.

    The aircraft remained on the site of the museum after it was closed - and replaced by a Roller City venture.

    1985


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: 1985 photo at Southend Airport in the UK

    1989

    Deterioration of the airframe made it a health hazard - which meant the aircraft was broken up - but the cockpit was saved.

    9 May 1989

    Transported by ground.
    To Duxford.

    By June 2004

    To Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.
    Only the cockpit section survives here.
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    26 October 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Newark Air Museum, Nottinghamshire
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