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    Airframe Family: Percival 84 Jet Provost / 80/90/145/167 Strikemaster
    Latest Model:Jet Provost T.4
    Last Military Serial:XR704 RAF
    Last Civil Registration:N8272Y
    Compressed ID:Hunting Jet Provost T.4 sn XR704 RA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mantei and Associates, Lexington, SC

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1963

    Constructed as a Jet Provost T.4 by Hunting.

    August 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XR704.

    By April 1968

    Transferred to The Macaws, RAF College of Air Warfare, RAF Manby, Lincolnshire.
    Opterated by this aerobatic display team.

    23 June 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Jet Provost T.4 of The Macaws aerobatic display team of the RAF College of Air Warfare at RAF Manby in action at the Woodford Airshow in June 1973.

    By September 1974

    Transferred to 6 Flying Training School, RAF Finningley, West Yorkshire.

    Transferred to Number 1 School of Technical Training, RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire.
    To as instructional airframe.Assigned RAF Maintenance serial 8506M.

    May 1995

    Exported to United States.

    To unknown owner with c/r N8272Y.

    18 September 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX8272Y (P84 MK 4, XR704) issued.

    17 January 2001

    To Airmans Aviation Co Ltd, Fort Smith, AR with new c/r N8272Y.

    4 January 2008

    To Young Bobby, Burnsville, NC keeping c/r N8272Y.

    1 April 2012


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At Cheraw Municipal Airport/Lynch Bellinger Field, SC

    11 February 2014

    To Bobby R. Young, Burnsville, NC keeping c/r N8272Y.

    17 November 2016

    To unknown owner with c/r N8272Y.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Lexington, SC.

    22 December 2016

    To Mantei and Associates, Lexington, SC keeping c/r N8272Y.

    Based at Cheraw Municipal Airport/Lynch Bellinger Field, Cheraw, SC.
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    1 January 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX8272Y (P84 MK 4, XR704) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2018

    To Airmans Aviation Co Ltd, Fort Smith, AR keeping c/r N8272Y.

    16 July 2019

    To Mantei and Associates, Lexington, SC keeping c/r N8272Y.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Peter Nicholson
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