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    Airframe Family: Bristol Beaufighter
    Latest Model:Beaufighter TF.X
    Last Military Serial:BF-10 FAdA
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland

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    Constructed as a Beaufighter TF.X by Bristol at Old Mixon, Weston-super-Mare.
    RD220 was constructed at the Shadow Aircraft Factory at Old Mixon, Weston-super-Mare, being one of sixteen Beaufighters transferred to the Portuguese Navy. After military service for five years it was handed over to the Lisbon Technical Institute in 1950, then to the Museo do Areo at Alverca Air Base in 1966, where it was stored outdoors.It was purchased by the South African Air Force Museum in 1983 and by National Museums Scotland in 2000, and is currently under restoration at East Fortune,

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n RD220.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Forcas Aereas da Armada with s/n BF-10.

    To National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.
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    9 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Under restoration at The Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Scotland

    9 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Under restoration at The Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Scotland


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