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    Airframe Family: Supermarine S.6
    Latest Model:S.6B
    Last Military Serial:S1595 RAF
    Compressed ID:Supermarine S.6B sn S1595 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Science Museum, South Kensington, London, London, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S.6B with s/n S1595 RAF.
    Markings applied: S

    29 September 1931

    Set the absolute speed record of 656 km/h.

    July 1978


    Photographer: JM Bryant
    Notes: ID # object-8636069 F light Gallery, Science Museum, South Kensington, London, England, UK

    By March 1994

    To Science Museum, South Kensington, London, London, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    9 November 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Science Museum, Kensington, London
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