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    Airframe Family: Blackburn Buccaneer
    Latest Model:Buccaneer S.2B
    Last Military Serial:XN983 RAF
    Construction Number:B3-11-64
    Compressed ID:Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B sn XN983 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum, Walsoken / Walton Highway, Norfolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Buccaneer S.2.

    8 March 1965

    First flight.

    29 March 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XN983.

    25 October 1973

    Converted to a Buccaneer S.2B.

    22 September 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XN983.

    By July 1982

    Transferred to 12 SQN, RAF Honington.
    Operated with markings: 983

    Circa 1982


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Yeovilton.

    31 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    11 August 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF St Mawgan Airshow

    12 July 1985


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: On static display at IAT Fairford.

    10 April 1994

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    2002

    Placed on display with Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum, Walsoken/Walton Highway, Norfolk, England.
    Only the nose section survives here.
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    19 March 2016


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at West Walton Highway, Norfolk, England
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