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    Airframe Family: Vickers Vimy
    Latest Model:FB.27 Vimy (Replica)
    Construction Number:01
    Last Civil Registration:N71MY
    Compressed ID:Vintage Aircraft and Flying Associa...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aviation Adventures Llc, Sausalito, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    From 1994 to 1999

    Constructed as a FB.27 by Vintage Aircraft and Flying Association (VAFA) at Brooklands.

    6 August 1994


    Photographer: Earl A Holmquist
    Notes: Photographed at Hamilton, CA.

    16 November 1998

    Certificate of airworthiness for N71MY (VIMY FB-27, 01) issued.

    25 November 1998

    To Aviation Adventures Llc, Sausalito, CA with new c/r N71MY.

    23 July 2001


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    23 July 2001


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    23 July 2001


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    23 July 2001


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    29 August 2006

    To Brooklands Vimy Inc (owner Trustee), Wilmington, DE with new c/r N71MY.

    18 July 2008


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: On display at Farnborough International 2008.

    Based at Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England.
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    Markings Applied: NX71MY - Spirit of Brooklands

    28 October 2010

    To unknown owner with c/r N71MY.
    Last CR action date noted here. Sale reported to a new owner in Surrey.

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1999 built replica of a 1920 Vickers Vimy FB-27

    9 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1999 built replica of a 1920 Vickers Vimy FB-27

    21 August 2013

    Civil registration, N71MY, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Surrey.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX71MY (VIMY FB-27, 01) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2016

    To Aviation Adventures Llc, Sausalito, CA keeping c/r N71MY.
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