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    Airframe Family: Slingsby Grasshopper
    Latest Model:Grasshopper TX.1
    Last Military Serial:WZ780 RAF
    Construction Number:776
    Latest Owner or Location:Werneuchen Airfield, Werneuchen, Brandenburg

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Grasshopper TX.1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WZ780.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Werneuchen Airfield, Werneuchen, Brandenburg.
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    8 September 2012


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: D-QUAX in the Technikmuseum Berlin is also described as former WZ870 / c/n 776, so there is some doubt where the original WZ870 is, in Berlin or in Werneuchen.

    17 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Werneuchen, Brandenburg, Germany

    17 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Wernauchen, Brandenburg, Germany

    The example at Werneuchen is a composite, rear fuselage SSK/RF3108. The orginal fuselage would have been SSK/FF1502.
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