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    Airframe Family: Percival P-66 Pembroke/President
    Latest Model:Pembroke C.1
    Last Military Serial:XL929 RAF
    Construction Number:PAC/66/087
    Last Civil Registration:G-BNPU
    Latest Owner or Location:South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a Pembroke C.1.

    27 September 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XL929.

    27 September 1957

    Transferred to Bomber Command Communications Squadron (BCCS), Booker, later Bovingdon.
    Personal aircraft of AOCinC ACM Sir Harry Broadhurst.

    30 June 1963

    Transferred to Fighter Command Communications Squadron (FCCS), Bovingdon.

    31 July 1963

    Transferred to Transport Command Southern Communications Squadron (TCCS), Upavon.

    1 January 1969

    Transferred to Strike Command Communications Squadron (SCCS), Northolt.
    Renamed as 207 squadron on 13 February 1969.

    10 December 1980

    Transferred to 60 Squadron, Wildenrath, Germany.

    30 June 1987

    To Terry Stanley Warren, Ventnor, Isle of Wight with new c/r G-BNPU (PERCIVAL P66 PEMBROKE, K66/087).
    Operated with markings: XL929

    7 May 1988

    To Northbrook College, Shoreham Campus (Aerospace and Motor Vehicle Engineering), Shoreham Airport, Brighton, Sussex-West, England.
    For use as an instructional airframe.
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    11 August 1988

    Civil registration, G-BNPU, cancelled.

    26 August 2002

    To Atlantic Aviation, Coventry.
    For spares.

    11 November 2020

    To South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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    27 June 2021


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Notes: Fuselage of Pembroke G-BNPU at SWAM on 27th June 2021.
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    South Wales Aviation Group
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     Andrew Appleton
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