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    Airframe Family: Avro 748 Andover / HS-748 / BAe-748
    Latest Model:Andover CC.2
    Last Military Serial:D2-MAF FANA
    Construction Number:1566
    Last Civil Registration:9L-LBG
    Compressed ID:Hawker Siddeley Andover CC.2 sn D2-...
    Latest Owner or Location:748 Air Services, Sierra Leone

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an Andover CC.2 by Hawker Siddeley.

    6 May 1965

    First flight.

    9 September 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XS794.

    By September 1984

    Transferred to 32 Squadron, RAF Northolt.

    15 September 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Abingdon Battle of Britain Airshow

    11 July 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Andover CC.2 of 32 Squadron at RAF Northolt on final approach to RAF Lossiemouth in the Summer of 1988.

    March 1995

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Forca Aerea Nacional Angolana with s/n D2-MAF.

    To 748 Air Services, Sierra Leone with new c/r 9L-LBG.

    14 February 1999

    Written off.
    After departing Lokichoggio Airport, Kenya, the aircraft landed hot and downwind at Foxtrot Airstrip, South Sudan. It failed to stop on the runway and overran down through some tree stumps. The airstrip is located roughly 100nm NNW of Malakal. The aircraft carried freight for the SPLA troops in the Nuba mountains.
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     Aviation Safety Network
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Robert Nichols
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