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    Airframe Family: Avro 652 Anson
    Latest Model:Anson C.21
    Last Military Serial:WD413 RAF
    Construction Number:3634
    Last Civil Registration:G-VROE
    Latest Owner or Location:Fly The Dream Ltd, Sleap Airfield, Shropshire

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    Dates

    Event

    1950

    Constructed as an Anson T.21.
    By AVRoe at Yeadon

    Circa 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WD413.

    Circa 1950

    Transferred to 1 Basic Air Navigation School, RAF Hamble.

    Converted to an Anson C.21.

    Transferred to Bomber Command Communications Flight, RAF Booker.

    Transferred to Fighter Command Communications Flight, RAF Bovington.

    March 1965

    Transferred to 23MU, RAF Aldergrove.

    March 1965

    New serial number assigned: 7881M RAF
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    1977

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    From 16 December 1977 to 3 March 1998

    To Gordon Michael Kingsley Fraser, Castle Donnington with new c/r G-BFIR.

    1980

    Damaged.
    At Andrewsfield, Essex.

    23 August 1980


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: On display with RAF serial WD 413 at the 1980 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete, Suffolk.

    By 1982

    Repair completed.
    Using parts of G-AGWE and G-AHIC (centre section).

    By 1982

    Markings Applied: WD413
    In RAF Transport Command c/s.

    29 May 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Mildenhall Air Show

    21 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Yeovilton Air Day

    22 March 1988

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-BFIR expired.

    1988

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Strathallan.

    1992

    Transported by ground.
    To Teesside Airport for storage.

    21 March 1993

    Transported by ground.
    To RNAS Lee-on-Solent for storage.

    July 1996

    Restoration started.
    With Aircraft Restoration Company, Duxford.

    17 February 1998

    Flown to Coventry Airport.

    3 March 1998

    To Air Atlantique Ltd, Dakota House, Coventry Airport West, Baginton, Coventry with new c/r G-VROE.

    Markings Applied: WD413
    1950s RAF Trainer c/s of all-over silver with yellow fuselage and wing bands.

    21 July 2002


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: RAF Fairford RIAT

    18 July 2003


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: RAF Fairford RIAT

    19 July 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: In the 100 Years of Flight enclave at RIAT Fairford.

    22 August 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Sywell Airshow in UK

    6 May 2012


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Abingdon Airshow

    6 May 2012


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Abingdon Airshow

    Operated by Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay Cornwall Airport/Saint Mawgan Airport, Saint Mawgan, Cornwall, England.
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    7 June 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay Airport

    19 June 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Classic Air Force Live Museum, Newquay Airport

    17 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    21 March 2017

    To Glenn Garath Leslie James, High Barn, Ridgewardine, Adderley, Market Drayton with new c/r G-BFIR.

    To Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre, Newquay Cornwall Airport/Saint Mawgan Airport, Saint Mawgan, Cornwall, England.
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    20 March 2020

    To Fly The Dream Ltd, Sleap Airfield, Shropshire with new c/r G-VROE.

    13 August 2022


    Photographer: David owen
    Notes: Photo Sleap Airfield Shropshire 13.8.2022


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    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom

    Individual Contributors
    Andrew Appleton
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols

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