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    Airframe Family: Cierva Skeeter
    Latest Model:Skeeter AOP.12
    Last Military Serial:XM555 RAF
    Construction Number:S2/5109
    Compressed ID:Saunders-Roe Skeeter AOP.12 sn XM55...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

    March 1959

    Constructed as a Skeeter AOP.12 by Saunders-Roe.
    The delivery date is provided.

    10 June 1959

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to the Eastleigh Airport.

    Test flown.

    14 July 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XM555.
    The delivery date is provided.

    14 July 1959

    Transferred to Army Air Corps Headquarters, Middle Wallop Airfield, Hants.

    8 August 1959

    Transferred to 654 Squadron, No 1 Wing Army Air Corps, Tofrek Barracks, Hildesheim, West Germany.

    22 June 1960

    Grounded due to known undercarriage and engine problems common to the aircraft type.

    October 1964

    Transferred to 2 Division Aviation Army Air Corps, Tofrek Barracks, Hildesheim, West Germany.
    No 654 became 2 Division.

    By July 1965

    Transferred to No 5 Flight, 12th Infantry Brigade, 2 Division Aviation, Osnabruck.

    13 April 1967

    Transferred to No 15 Maintenance Unit, RAF Wroughton, Wilts.

    27 May 1968

    Declared non-effective airframe while with No 15 MU.

    15 August 1968

    Transferred to RAF Upwood, Cambridgeshire.
    Used for ground instruction at Upwood.

    15 August 1968

    New serial number assigned: 8027M RAF

    9 May 1970

    Transferred to Odiham.
    Displayed at Odiham.

    6 August 1973

    To CFS Helicopter Wing, RAF Ternhill, Shropshire.
    Displayed as a gate guard.

    September 1976

    To CFS Helicopter Wing, RAF Shawbury.
    Displayed as a gate guard.

    June 1981

    Restored.

    June 1983

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
    Moved from Shawbury to Cosford.
    View the Location Dossier

    5 March 2003

    Transported by ground. Delivered to RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
    Moved from Cosford to Hendon.
    View the Location Dossier

    2009


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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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