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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-110 Sea Vixen
    Latest Model:Sea Vixen FAW.2
    Last Military Serial:XN650 RN
    Construction Number:10082
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 sn XN6...
    Latest Owner or Location:S and R Jerman, Welshpool, Powys

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sea Vixen FAW.1.

    20 February 1961

    First flight.
    At Hatfield.

    28 March 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XN650.

    28 March 1961

    Transferred to Aircraft Handling Unit (AHU), RNAS Abbotsinch.

    13 June 1961

    Transferred to RNAHU, RAF Tengah, Singapore.

    12 February 1962

    Transferred to 893NAS, HMS Centaur.
    Code 456-C.

    16 November 1964

    Transferred to 892NAS, HMS Centaur.
    Code 211-C.

    By July 1965

    Converted to a Sea Vixen FAW.2.
    Carried out at RNAY Belfast.

    By 15 December 1966

    Transferred to RNAY Fleetlands.

    9 May 1967

    Transferred to Naval Air Support Unit, Changi, Singapore.

    23 July 1967

    Transferred to 892NAS, HMS Hermes.
    Code 301.

    By October 1968

    Transferred to RNAY Belfast.

    February 1972

    Transferred to RAE Bedford.

    3 March 1972

    Transferred to School of Aircraft Handling (SAH), RNAS Culdrose.

    8 March 1972

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Navy.

    8 March 1972

    New serial number assigned: A2638 RN

    8 March 1972

    Markings Applied: SAH-12

    25 April 1979

    To Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff.

    By October 1986

    Markings Applied: VL
    VL on tail, later coded 456-V.

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff

    15 February 1996

    To Phoenix Aviation, Bruntingthorpe.

    1996

    Scrapped.
    At Coventry. Nose retained.

    8 October 1996

    To S and R Jerman, Welshpool, Powys.
    Nose only.

    Circa June 2002

    To unknown owner.
    Newton Abbot, Devon. Nose only.

    15 December 2007

    To unknown owner.
    Bruntingthorpe. Nose only.

    14 June 2009


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: DH Sea Vixen nose section XN650 at Bruntingthorpe in June 2009
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