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Comet XK695 @EGSU

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De Havilland DH-106 Comet 2R XK695 (c/n 06030) , formerly of RAF 51 Squadron, on display at Duxford Aerodrome, EGSU (1987). XK695 was retired to the Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford in 1975 having completed flying 8,236 hours in over 3,200 flights. Because of excessive corrosion, she was dismantled in 1992. Now only the nose and a part of the cockpit are preserved at the de Haviland Aircraft Museum in Hertfordshire, UK. Also uploaded on Wikimedia Commons as: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19870830-Duxford-XK695.jpg This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License .