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    Airframe Family: Dassault MD-452 Mystere
    Latest Model:Mystere IVA
    Last Military Serial:59 ALA
    Construction Number:59
    Compressed ID:Dassault Mystere IVA sn 59 ALA cn 5...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Mystere IVA.
    Procured under MDAP funding and therefore US property.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 59.

    Transferred to EC7, AdA.
    Code 7-CV applied.

    Transferred to GE-314.
    Code 314-TH applied.

    1978

    Returned to US ownership.

    3 May 1978

    Ferry flight.
    From France to RAF Sculthorpe.

    1978

    Under USAF Museum ownership.

    24 October 1978

    Loaned to Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff, Wales.
    Museum now closed and exhibits removed.

    By October 1986

    Markings Applied: 2-SF, 59
    Natural metal overall, 2-SF on central fuselage (markings for EC-2) yellow and black bands on rear fuselage (1956 Suez Campaign) 59 on top of port tail (missing on starboard side).

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff

    Markings Applied: TH-314
    Incorrectly marked TH-314 on forward fuselage.

    By February 1998

    Scrapped.
    At the museum by Mil-Ver Metals, Coventry under observance of US officials.


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    Credits
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    Print Sources
    European Air Forces Directory (Mach III Publishing) by Ian Carroll

    Internet Sources
    South Wales Aviation Group

    Individual Contributors
    Robert Nichols

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