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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-106 Comet / HS Nimrod
    Latest Model:Comet 1A
    Last Military Serial:XM823 RAF
    Construction Number:6022
    Last Civil Registration:G-APAS
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a Comet 1A.
    Was the last of 21 Comet 1 aircraft to be completed.

    16 March 1953

    First flight.

    22 July 1953

    To Air France with new c/r F-BGNZ.

    September 1956

    To de Havilland Aircraft Company with new c/r G-5-23.

    23 May 1957

    To BOAC with new c/r G-APAS.

    22 October 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XM823.

    8 April 1968

    Last flight.

    8 April 1968

    New serial number assigned: 8351M RAF

    17 September 1978

    Placed on display with Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    19 August 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Outside the hangar at Cosford, UK

    19 August 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost

    1 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At RAF Museum at Cosford

    21 May 2012


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup

    30 March 2016


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England
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