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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra TT.18
    Last Military Serial:WJ680 RAF
    Construction Number:EEP71324
    Last Civil Registration:VH-ZSQ
    Latest Owner or Location:Commonwealth of Australia Represented By Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF Base Point Cook, VIC

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a Canberra B.2.

    1 December 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WJ680.

    From 1955 to August 1959

    Transferred to RAF Gutersloh, West Germany.

    August 1959

    Transferred to Number 15 Maintenance Unit, RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire.

    May 1967

    Transferred to BAC Salmesbury, Lancashire.

    Converted to a Canberra TT.18.
    The work was carried out by BAC.

    June 1971

    Transferred to 7 Squadron, RAF Saint Mawgan, Cornwall.

    30 July 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Canberra TT.18 of 7 Squadron on display at the 1977 Royal Review at RAF Finningley.

    13 August 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Canberra TT.18 of 7 Squadron on static display at the 1977 RAF Lossiemouth Open Day.

    April 1982

    Transferred to 100 Squadron, RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire.
    Operated with markings: CT, C-T,

    6 August 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF St Mawgan Airshow

    18 December 1991

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    From 11 December 1992 to 17 June 1994

    To Adrian Roy Mitchell with new c/r G-BURM.

    July 1993


    Photographer: Unknown

    17 June 1994

    To Mitchell Aircraft Co Ltd, Folgate House, North Walsham keeping c/r G-BURM.

    1994

    Performed its first civil display at Duxford.

    2001

    To Temora Aviation Museum Inc, Temora, NSW with new c/r VH-ZSQ (CANBERRA TT18, WJ680).

    3 July 2002

    Civil registration, G-BURM, cancelled.

    30 July 2002

    Operated by Temora Aviation Museum Engineering P/L.

    24 February 2006

    Operated by Temora Aviation Museum Engineering P/L.

    Operated by Temora Aviation Museum, Temora, New South Wales.
    Operated with markings: painted to represent RAAF A84-234
    The Museum painted the aircraft to represent those flown by the RAAF 2 Squadron in the Vietnam conflict. The aircraft is maintained in airworthy condition and regularly flown at Museum showcase days and at airshows.
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    28 March 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Temora Airport, New South Wales, during the 40th Anniversary Fly-In of the Australian Antique Aircraft Association

    28 March 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Temora Airport, New South Wales, during the 40th Anniversary Fly-In of the Australian Antique Aircraft Association

    27 August 2019

    To RAAF Museum, RAAF Base Point Cook, VIC keeping c/r VH-ZSQ.

    27 August 2019

    To Commonwealth of Australia Represented By Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF Base Point Cook, VIC keeping c/r VH-ZSQ.


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    Australian Defense Force Serials
    Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom

    Individual Contributors
    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson

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