Serial | SH1629 | |||||||||||||||
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Model | Canberra-T.17 | |||||||||||||||
Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
Comments | written off (damaged beyond repair) as a T.17 "W" of 360 Squadron: it aquaplaned on landing at RAE Bedford on 30.11.81 and the pilot retracted the undercarriage to stop. It was seen on the dump there on 21.02.82, retained for ground instructional use as GI airframe 8492M for training with the Battle Damage Repair Flight at RAF Marham. Cut up for scrap in 1990, the nose section ended up with the Newark Aircraft Museum at Newark, Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||
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