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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra PR.7
    Last Military Serial:WT509 RAF
    Construction Number:71369
    Compressed ID:English Electric Canberra PR.7 sn W...
    Latest Owner or Location:1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF

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    Dates

    Event

    By 1954

    Constructed as a Canberra PR.7.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WT509.

    Transferred to 13 SQ RAF.

    Transferred to 17 SQ RAF.

    Transferred to 80 SQ RAF.

    Transferred to 58 SQ RAF.

    February 1975

    Transferred to Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment.
    For radio trials.

    Transferred to 13 SQ RAF.

    1991

    Transferred to 100 SQ RAF.

    1992

    Transferred to 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF.

    By 1993

    Withdrawn from use.
    Used as a spares source.

    23 June 1996


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: RAF Marham, UK

    Circa October 2004

    Scrapped.
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