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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra B.2
    Last Military Serial:WV787 RAF
    Construction Number:EEP71644
    Compressed ID:English Electric Canberra B.2 sn WV...
    Latest Owner or Location:Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Canberra B.2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WV787.

    Transferred to A and AEE, Boscombe Down.

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common.

    29 June 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: departing RAF Greenham Common after the IAT

    1984

    Transferred to RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

    New serial number assigned: 8799M RAF
    Utilized as a battle damage repair airframe.

    October 1985

    To Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.
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    27 August 1995


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Newark.

    26 October 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved at Newark Air Museum in the UK

    26 October 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved at Newark Air Museum in the UK
    Credits
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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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