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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire FB.6
    Last Military Serial:J-1129 SwiAF
    Construction Number:638
    Last Civil Registration:N4024S
    Compressed ID:F+W Vampire FB.6 sn J-1129 SwiAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1951

    Constructed as a Vampire FB.6 by F+W at Emmen, Switzerland.

    7 January 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-1129.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At the Dubendorf Air Base, Switzerland.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Somewhere over the Alps.

    1 January 1991

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Swiss Air Force.

    19 February 1992

    To Air Museum, Chino, CA with new c/r N4024S.

    Based at Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    Markings Applied: WA235
    False RAF markings and s/n WA235 which actually was a FB.5 variant scrapped on the 22nd of June, 1960.

    28 January 1993

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX4024S (DH-100 MK 6, 638) issued.

    4 December 1997


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame in Chino, California.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Ingo Warnecke
    Notes: At Planes of Fame Museum, Chino, California

    18 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA, USA.

    1 November 2018

    To Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino, CA keeping c/r N4024S.
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     Marcin Rogowski
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