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    Airframe Family: Scheibe SF25 Falke / Slingsby T-61 Falke / Slingsby Venture
    Latest Model:Venture T.2
    Last Military Serial:ZA656 RAF
    Construction Number:1975
    Last Civil Registration:G-BTWC
    Compressed ID:Slingsby Venture T.2 sn ZA656 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bannerdown Gliding Club, Keevil Airfield, Keevil, Wiltshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1980

    Constructed as a Venture T.2 by Slingsby.
    Built in 1980

    1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZA656.

    23 September 1991

    To Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association, RAF Halton with new c/r G-BTWC.

    12 September 2014

    To 621 Venture Syndicate, Cam, Gloucestershire keeping c/r G-BTWC.

    To Bannerdown Gliding Club, Keevil Airfield, Keevil, Wiltshire, England.
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    5 September 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Arriving at 2015 LAA Rally at Sywell

    17 June 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Air Britain Fly-In at North Weald

    4 September 2021


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1980 Slingsby T-61F Venture T2, c/n 1975 at LAA National Fly-In at Sywell
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