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    Airframe Family: Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
    Latest Model:Twin Pioneer CC.1
    Last Military Serial:XM961 RAF
    Construction Number:558
    Last Civil Registration:G-BBVF
    Compressed ID:Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.1...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Twin Pioneer CC.1.

    5 January 1959

    First flight.

    14 January 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XM961.

    Assigned to Shawbury for storage.
    Withdrawn from use.

    New serial number assigned: 7978M RAF

    28 July 1967

    Transferred to School, Technical Training, Halton.
    Assigned to the school with the new serial number.

    17 December 1974

    To Flight One Ltd with new c/r G-BBVF (TWIN PIONEER 3, 558).

    1 August 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: XM961/20 - Twin Pioneer CC.1 - ex-Royal Air Force - Halton - 1 August 78Served with the RAF between 1959 and 1967 with 230 Squadron at Benson and 21 Squadron in the Far East. Allocated for instructional use as 7978M and moved to Halton for use by No 1 School of Technical Training

    11 March 1982

    Damaged.
    Damaged beyond repair when struck by another aircraft during a gale.

    To National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.
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    9 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved at Museum of Flight, East Fortune in Scotland

    9 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved at Museum of Flight, East Fortune in Scotland

    9 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved at Museum of Flight, East Fortune in Scotland
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