Royal Air Force de Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.11 WZ549
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Operator: Royal Air Force - WZ549
Aircraft: de Havilland - DH.115 Vampire T.11
Airport: UK - Northern Ireland - Long Kesh
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2011-9-17 by Wallace Shackleton [Contact]
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Photographer's remark
(6.10.2011, 11:54 CET)
Vampire WZ549 was one of a batch of 143 aircraft delivered to the RAF between February 1952 and August 1953. It first entered service with Marshalls of Cambridge and was later operated by the Ferry Training Unit, No.8 FTS and No.1 FTS. On 4 November 1964 it joined the Central Navigation & Control School at Shawbury remaining in service there until 1970. It then moved to RAF Coningsby becoming a Maintenance Airframe, and subsequently spent a period of time in the care of the Lincolnshire Aviation Preservation Society before returning again to Coningsby
In 1988 under the initiative of the Wing Commander Operations, an Ulsterman called Ron Shimmons, it was decided to donate it to the Society.
The V1 was a scratch built example made by a UAS member and fairly convincing it is too.
My thanks to the Ulster Aviation Society for their hospitality.
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