The RAAF was one of the largest users of the Vampire with nearly 200 aircraft being built in Australia. The two seat T.35s were delivered between 1952 and 1954, serving till 1970. This example is actually a composite put together form various Vampires by the Maintenance Squadron at East Sale in the mid 1990s, said to comprise the wings and tail booms of A97-827 and the fuselage pod of A79-616. However the latter complete aircraft was exported to the US in 1970, so it may be safer to assume that this one is more 827 than anything else!