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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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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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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 62 Storches captured intact in the British occupation zone of Germany. Apparently one of three Fi 156s surrendered at Flensburg coded RR + KE of an unknown unit. It had earlier been coded GM + AK and had been built by Mraz at Chocen, Czechoslovakia, one of 137 Storches built there in 1944. Although previously reported as W/Nr 475061, 475081 is shown on two plates on the aircraft itself. The Fi-156C-7 was the final wartime production version, introduced 1944.
Allocated RAF serial VP546 in April 1946.
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Built in 1954 by Percival at Luton as one of 388 Provosts built.Constructor’s number PAC56/F/108. Currently undergoing restoration in the Michael Beetham Conservation Centre at RAF Cosford
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This very rare bird was flying up to recently with the Shuttleworth Trust at Old Warden in its original German markings 7198/18. Now undergoing restoration in the Michael Beetham Conservation Centre, at the RAF Museum Cosford. Please note that this aircraft was originally built in 1918 & is not a replica !
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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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K9942 is the oldest surviving Spitfire. This aircraft was the 155th built and first flew in April 1939. It flew operationally with No. 72 Squadron RAF until June 1940, when it was damaged in a wheels-up landing. After repair, it was used for training until August 1944, when it became one of several Battle of Britain aircraft veterans that were allocated to the Air Historical Branch for future museum preservation
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The Pembroke was a development of the Percival Prince civil transport. It had a longer wing to permit a higher fully laden weight. The prototype flew on 21 November 1952. Production was complete in early 1958.
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The Sopwith Pup was a British single-seater biplane fighter aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company. It entered service with the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in the autumn of 1916. With pleasant flying characteristics and good manoeuvrability, the aircraft proved very successful. The Pup was eventually outclassed by newer German fighters, but it was not completely replaced on the Western Front until the end of 1917. Remaining Pups were relegated to Home Defence and training units. The Pup's docile flying characteristics also made it ideal for use in aircraft carrier deck landing and take off experiments. Another wonderful exhibit at the RAF Museum Cosford !
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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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WK935 is a much modified Gloster Meteor F8 fighter. The "prone position/prone pilot" Meteor was used to evaluate the effects of "g"-forces while flying in a prone position. Along with the Reid and Sigrist R.S.4 "Bobsleigh", the Gloster Meteor was engaged in a proof-of-concept experimental programme that proved in practice that the difficulties of operating the controls of the aircraft outweighed the advantages of sustaining higher g effects.
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The Saunders-Roe SR.53 was a British prototype interceptor aircraft of mixed jet and rocket propulsion developed for the Royal Air Force by Saunders-Roe in the early 1950s. Although its performance was promising, the need for such an aircraft was soon overtaken by surface-to-air missile development and the project was cancelled after 56 test flights.
Two aircraft were built and flown; one was destroyed during flight testing in June 1958. XD145 is the first prototype and preserved in great condition at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford.
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First flight 17.5.75. Last flight 12.6.07 to Cosford for use by the DCAE (Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering) for G/I (Ground Instruction)
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