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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra B.2
    Last Military Serial:99+35 WGAF
    Construction Number:R3/EA3/6652
    Last Civil Registration:D-9567
    Latest Owner or Location:Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Canberra B.2.

    24 September 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK138.

    30 May 1957

    Assigned to 15 MU, Wroughton for storage.

    7 April 1965

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    28 March 1966

    To BAC Warton.

    October 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n YA+153.

    1968

    New serial number assigned: 00+03 WGAF

    1970

    To German Ministry of Defence with new c/r D-9567.

    1976

    New serial number assigned: 99+35 WGAF

    By July 1983

    Transferred to Mil Geo Amt, Manching, FRG.

    23 July 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT 83

    12 July 1985


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Arriving at IAT Fairford.

    12 July 1985


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Departing IAT Fairford.

    13 July 1985


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At RAF Fairford IAT 1985. Serving with MiLGeoAmt based at Manching

    20 July 1991


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Canberra B.2 of WTD-61, callsign Dixi 32, at the 1991 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    April 1996

    Placed on display with Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin.
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    8 May 2002


    Photographer: John Bennett


    Photographer: Unknown

    12 June 2022


    Photographer: Heino Rhoden


    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group

    Individual Contributors
    John Bennett
    Robert Nichols

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