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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire T.11
    Last Military Serial:XK623 RAF
    Construction Number:15780
    Last Civil Registration:G-VAMP
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Vampire T.11 sn XK623...
    Latest Owner or Location:Caernarfon Airworld Aviation Museum, Caernarfon Airport, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Vampire T.11.

    28 June 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XK623.

    27 July 1963

    Assigned to 19 Maintenance Unit, RAF Saint Athan for storage.

    3 July 1968

    Withdrawn from use.

    6 December 1968

    To Hawker Siddeley Aviation.

    From 7 December 1973 to Circa 1984

    To North Manchester College, Moston.
    Instructional Airframe.

    From 1984 to 1986

    To Hunter One Collection, Hurn.
    Restoration planned.

    By 1984

    Civil registration G-VAMP reserved but not taken up.

    18 August 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at the TVS Airshow, Hurn

    To Caernarfon Airworld Aviation Museum, Caernarfon Airport, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 56

    8 May 2014


    Photographer: Joop de Groot
    Notes: 2014 photo at Caernarfon Museum
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Wiek Dwudziesty
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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