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Scheme 1: No. 601 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Royal Air Force North Weald, Essex, England 1952
Scheme 2: No. 442 'City of Vancouver' Auxiliary fighter squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, Station Vancouver, Canada, 1949
Scheme 3: P42408/AE-B, Gardermoen Museum. Oslo, Norway, 2019

The Vampire F.Mk.I entered Royal Air Force service in March 1946, to be followed by the revised and more capable F.3 just two years later. The Vampire was also the first RAF aircraft to exceed 500 mph, with the extra range of the F.3 allowing this to be the first jet fighter to cross the Atlantic.