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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire T.11
    Last Military Serial:XD445 RAF
    Construction Number:15382
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Vampire T.11 sn XD445...
    Latest Owner or Location:Abbots Bromley Farm Strip, Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire / Staffs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vampire T.11.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XD445.

    30 November 1954

    Awaiting collection.

    3 December 1954

    Transferred to 10 Mu Hullavington.

    21 March 1955

    Transferred to 2 TAF, Germany.

    31 May 1955

    Crashed.
    Flying accident cat 3R.

    1 May 1956

    Returned UK.

    2 May 1956

    Transferred to Marshalls of Cambridge.
    To Marshalls for repairs.

    From Unknown to 31 October 1956

    Repaired.

    8 November 1956

    To 5 FTS, Oakington.
    Initially uncoded then coded and later.

    Markings Applied: AH

    Markings Applied: 30

    6 September 1957

    Crashed.
    Flying accident cat 3R.

    10 September 1957

    Repaired on site by 71 MU from Bicester.

    13 December 1957

    Transferred to 5 FTS, Oakington.
    Returned to 5 FTS.

    31 October 1958

    Transferred to de-Havilland.
    Sent to de Havilland.

    1 January 1959

    Transferred to 5 FTS, Oakington.
    Returned to 5 FTS.

    10 June 1960

    Refin.

    20 July 1960

    Refin compleate.

    From Circa 20 July 1960 to 25 May 1961

    Dennis Holloway comments (11 April 2016): This period has been left blank on the movement card.

    31 March 1962

    Transferred to 4 FTS, Valley.
    Operated with markings: 51

    8 January 1963

    Assigned to 19 MU, Saint Athans for storage.

    5 July 1967

    Non effective airframe.

    1 December 1967

    To HSA.

    Stored at Hawarden.

    November 1971

    Transported by ground.
    Moved by HSA to Woodford.

    11 January 1973

    To Huddersfield Tec Collage.
    Oirginally issued to Loughborough Collage.

    30 August 1981

    To Bomber County Aviation Museum, Cleethorpes.

    March 1988

    To Bomber County Aviation Museum, Hemswell.

    2004


    Photographer: Dennis Holloway
    Notes: Photo taken at Hemswell soon after I finished painting it

    June 2005

    Museum closed and the airframe was sold.

    To Abbots Bromley Farm Strip, Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire/Staffs, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 51, XD445

    30 May 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Stored at Yeatshall Farm, Abbots bromley, Staffordshire, UK
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