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    Airframe Family: Vickers Varsity
    Latest Model:Varsity T.1
    Last Military Serial:WL679 RAE
    Compressed ID:Vickers Varsity T.1 sn WL679 RAE
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Air Force Museum, Midland, Cosford, Shropshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a Varsity T.1.

    9 September 1953

    First flight.

    October 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n WL679.

    October 1953

    Transferred to R A E Farnborough.

    Transferred to Radar Research Establishment.

    1974

    Withdrawn from use.

    Transferred to RAE Bedford.
    Returned to service and used as a testing airframe for low-light television and high resolution thermal imaging systems and forward looking infrared sensors.

    By 1985

    Transferred to RAE Farnborough.

    13 July 1985


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford IAT

    18 July 1987


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Royal Aircraft Establishment Varsity T.1, callsign Nugget 56, was on static display at the 1987 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    2 August 1991

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
    Retired.

    27 July 1992

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    1 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At RAF Museum at Cosford in UK

    1 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At RAF Museum at Cosford in UK

    30 March 2016


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Midland, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Royal Air Force Museum
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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