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The Kestrel, serial number XS695, is one of only nine built by Hawker-Siddeley. Its main role was to evaluate vertical take-off in near service conditions. Fitted with a single Bristol Siddeley Pegasus engine and single seat cockpit, the success of the Kestrel came little more than a year before its successor, the Harrier, made its first flight. The Harrier served successfully with the Royal Air Force until 2011.
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The Boulton Paul Balliol and Sea Balliol were monoplane military advanced trainer aircraft built for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA) by Boulton Paul Aircraft. Developed in the late 1940s the Balliol was designed to replace the North American Harvard trainer and used the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, with the Sea Balliol a naval version for deck landing training.
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Built in 1942 at Leipzig by Erla Maschinenwerk GmbH, probably at its Mockau plant. Construction started as a Bf109F-3, but converted to Bf109G-2/Trop standard during construction. Recently transferred to Cosford from the RAF Museum, Hendon to make space for the 2018 RAF Centenary celebrations.
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One of 70 Pucara reconnaissance and counter insurgency attack aircraft delivered to Argentine Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Argentina) by early 1982 as A-515, one of 35 Pucaras allotted to Grupo 3 de Ataque (III Brigada Aerea). Allocated RAF serial ZD485
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The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, designed by Alexander Lippisch, was a German rocket-powered fighter aircraft. It is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational and the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1000 km/h (621 mph) in level flight. Its design was revolutionary and its performance unprecedented. German test pilot Heini Dittmar in early July 1944 reached 1,130 km/h (700 mph), an unofficial flight airspeed record unmatched by turbojet-powered aircraft for almost a decade. Over 300 aircraft were built, but the Komet proved ineffective in its dedicated role as an interceptor aircraft and was responsible for the destruction of only about nine to eighteen Allied aircraft against ten losses.
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Surrendered to elements of Surrendered to the RAF Regiment at Husum airfield, Schleswig - Holstein, close to the Danish border. By late April 1945 Husum had become the base of the last operational Me163 Unit, II/JG400 with some 80 Me163B aircraft on strength, largely grounded due to lack of fuel.
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The Bristol 188 was the first Bristol turbojet aeroplane to be built. Two flying examples were constructed with the objective of reaching and sustaining twice the speed of sound for long enough to enable steady-state kinetic heating effects on the structure to be experienced and recorded. After considerable production delays the first aircraft XF923, made its maiden flight 14 April 1962. First flight of XF926,from Filton ,was 29 April 1963. Both aircraft were grounded indefinitely and the project suspended in February 1964, partly due to problems of high fuel consumption and the inability to reach sustained high speed and achieving the original operational requirement for the project.
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G-APAS was the twenty-second DH106 Comet aircraft built at Hatfield in Hertfordshire and the tenth Mark 1A aircraft. She was assigned the serial number 06022 and undertook her first flight on 16 Match 1953. The aircraft was delivered to Air France and assigned the registration code F-BGNZ. Following a series of Comet aircraft crashes attributed to metal fatigue she was returned to de Havilland in June 1956.
F-BGNZ was converted to a Mark 1XB configuration in March 1957 emerging with revised cabin windows and strengthened fuselage and re-registered as G-APAS in May 1957. She served for UK government Ministry of Supply as XM823 and painted in RAF Transport Command colours before retirement to RAF Cosford in 1978. Re-painted in BOAC livery - it is the earliest surviving complete Comet aircraft.
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Manufactured June 1943 at its Hagerstown factory by Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation as a UC-61A Forwarder. (Fairchild 24W-41A - RAF Argus 2). Constructor’s number 565. Engine - 165-h.p Warner Super Scarab radial. 512 of this model were built, of which the USAAF retained 148 for its own use, others going to Britain on Lend-Lease where they were mainly used by the Air Transport Auxiliary for ferry pilot duties, in addition to extensive RAF use in the Middle East and India. Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 43-14601 to order No.AC-28355 at a cost of $10,611. 29 Jun 43 Shipped to the United Kingdom via Brooklyn, New York to where it was delivered ‘by Land’. It is likely that during the war years the aircraft was used as a hack aircraft by the US 8th Air Force and rendered surplus at the end of the war.
18 December 1946 Registered as G-AIZE.
Painted as "FS628" RAF SEAC. (The original FS628 was one of 161 Argus II aircraft delivered to the RAF March 1943 - February 1944; it served in the Far East and returned to the United States 27 March 1947
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