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    Airframe Family: Boulton Paul Defiant
    Latest Model:Defiant I
    Last Military Serial:N1671 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Defiant I.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n N1671.

    16 September 1971


    Photographer: Gordon Permann Collection
    Notes: At St.Athans South Wales

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n 8370M.

    To Medway Aircraft Preservation Society (MAPS), Rochester Airport, Rochester, Medway, England.
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    Markings Applied: EW-D

    To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    13 September 1968


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Boulton-Paul Defiant 1 in 307 Squadron markings on display at the 1968 RAF Finningley Airshow. It was then part of the Station Collection and now preserved at the RAF Museum at Hendon.

    21 August 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: The Defiant 1 of the RAF Museum at Hendon in the markings of 307 Squadron as displayed in 1976.

    April 1989


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the RAF Battle of Britain Museum.

    11 November 2019


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Seen here on display at The RAF Museum, Cosford on 11 November 2019.
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