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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire T.11
    Last Military Serial:XK627 RAF
    Construction Number:15784
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Vampire T.11 sn XK627...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cornwall at War Museum, Davidstow, Cornwall, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a Vampire T.11.

    From 21 September 1956 to 3 December 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XK627 and operated with these markings: 38.

    3 December 1968

    To Hawker Siddeley.

    From 31 January 1973 to 1977

    Based with Hazel Grove Girls School, Manchester.

    13 November 1973


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: XK627/38 - Vampire T.11 - ex-Royal Air Force - Hazel Grove School - Sold on 3 December 1968 to Hawker Siddeley Aircraft, and then moved to Hazel Grove Girls School at the end of January 1973

    July 2011

    To Davidstow Moor RAF Memorial Museum, Davidstow, Cornwall, England.
    Only the nose section survives here.
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    To Cornwall, War Museum, Davidstow, Cornwall, England.
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