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    Airframe Family: Percival 84 Jet Provost / 80/90/145/167 Strikemaster
    Latest Model:Strikemaster 80A
    Last Military Serial:1133 RSaAF
    Construction Number:PS.364
    Last Civil Registration:G-BESY
    Compressed ID:BAC Strikemaster 80A sn 1133 RSaAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Strikemaster 80A by BAC.
    Your Assistance is Needed: There is some confusion regarding the mark of this aircraft - Registration documents with CAA say it is a Mk 88 - IWM and other references say it is an 80A? Does anyone have the definitive documented answer?
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    From 26 April 1977 to 18 April 1983

    To British Aircraft Corporation, Warton with new c/r G-BESY.

    July 1977

    Civil registration, G-27-299, cancelled.

    7 July 1977

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Saudi Air Force with s/n 1133.

    By 2002

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Imperial War Museum

    28 February 2013


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Photographed being removed from Airspace at IWM Duxford, UK on 28 February 2013.

    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford

    23 November 2024


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Paul Jolly
    Robert Nichols
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