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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-100/115 Vampire
    Latest Model:Vampire T.11
    Last Military Serial:WZ507 RAF
    Construction Number:15127
    Last Civil Registration:G-VTII
    Latest Owner or Location:Mark Brian Hooton, Trustee of:, Vampire Preservation Group, Willen, Milton Keynes

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

    Constructed as a Vampire T.11.

    1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WZ507.

    1954

    Transferred to 229 Operation Conversion Unit (OCU), Chivenor.

    Transferred to Marshalls, Cambridge.
    Modified with the installation of a new bubble canopy and ejection seats.

    1959

    Transferred to 8 Flight Training School (FTS), Swinderby.

    1961

    Transferred to 5 FTS, Oakington.

    1963

    Transferred to 3/4 Civil Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit (CAACU), Exeter.

    1964

    Transferred to Posted to Central Air Traffic Control School (CATCS), Shawbury.

    1969

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    1969

    To Solway Aviation Museum, Carlisle Airport, Carlisle, Cumberland/Cumbria, England.
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    1 March 1971


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: On display at Carlisle Airport, Crosby-on-Eden.

    Restored.

    1980

    Assigned civil registration: G-VTII

    1982

    Used in the production of the BBC program The Aerodrome.

    1985

    To Vintage Aircraft Team, Cranfield.

    18 July 1987


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Vampire T.11 WZ507 operated by Dean Flying Displays as G-VTII on the flight-line at the 1987 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    Placed in storage.

    2002

    Restored.
    Restored to flying condition by deHavillnd Aviation at Swansea.

    2005

    To Vampire Preservation Group, North Weald Airport, Harlow, Essex, England.
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    Circa 20 April 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-VTII (DH115 VAMPIRE T11, 15127) issued.

    20 April 2005

    To Mark Brian Hooton, Trustee of:, Vampire Preservation Group, Willen, Milton Keynes keeping c/r G-VTII.

    30 August 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Home base of North Weald

    22 August 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2010 Sywell Air Show in the UK

    28 April 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Radial and Trainer Fly-In at Wolverhampton Airport in the UK

    30 April 2017

    Vampire rips up the Wolverhampton Runway - literally !!.
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    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
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    Mike Henniger
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