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    Airframe Family: Vickers Varsity
    Latest Model:Varsity T.1
    Last Military Serial:WJ903 RAF
    Construction Number:715
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Air Force

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

    Constructed as a Varsity T.1.

    From October 1952 to By February 1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WJ903.

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Unknown Photographer

    1976


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: When the RAF finished with the Varsity, they showed up on fire dumps all across the Country. WJ903/ C landed for the last time at Glasgow. Its nose survives in Doncaster, but her it is complete

    Circa 1987

    It was on display at the Dumfries and Galloway Air Museum but was scrapped in 1987 with the nose section moving to the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum/Aeroventure.

    3 June 2011


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Nose section on display at Aero Venture South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum, Doncaster
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