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===Museum display=== [[File:A8-328-A8-39 (16638727051).jpg|thumb|''A8-328'' at the Australian National Aviation Museum, 2014]] [[File:RAF Museum London IMG 9888 (33392475493).jpg|thumb|''RD253'', RAF Museum, 2017]] [[File:2017-12-07 15-18-47.D200.Wright-Patterson USAF Musem.4.hdr.jpg|thumb|Beaufighter Mk.Ic ''A19-43'', National Museum of the United States Air Force, 2017]] ;Australia * Beaufighter Mk.XXI ''A8β186'' β Built in Australia in 1945, ''A8β186'' saw service with [[No. 22 Squadron RAAF]] at the very end of World War 2. After spending some years on a farm in New South Wales, it was bought in 1965 by the Camden Museum of Aviation, a private aviation museum at [[Camden Airport (Sydney)|Camden Airport]], Sydney Australia. It was restored using parts gathered from a wide variety of sources and wears "Beau-gunsville" nose art. (They also have a complete nose section that was found at a Sydney Railway workshops and acquired by the museum; see "Harry's Baby", below.<ref>{[http://camdenmuseumofaviation.com.au/aircraft_collection_details.asp?id=10 "Beaufighter 156 Mark 21 A8-186."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409001658/http://camdenmuseumofaviation.com.au/aircraft_collection_details.asp?id=10 |date=9 April 2013 }} ''Camden Museum of Aviation''. Retrieved: 27 March 2013.</ref> * Beaufighter Mk.XXI ''A8β328'' β This Australianβbuilt aircraft is displayed at the [[Australian National Aviation Museum]] near Melbourne as ''A8-39/EH-K''. Completed on the day the Pacific War ended, it saw post-war service as a target-tug.<ref>[http://www.aarg.com.au/beaufighter.htm "DAP Mark 21 Beaufighter, A8β328."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403130047/http://www.aarg.com.au/beaufighter.htm |date=3 April 2007 }} ''Australian National Aviation Museum''. Retrieved: 27 March 2013.</ref> * Beaufighter Mk.XXI ''A8-386'' β nose section only, displayed at the Camden Museum of Aviation with "Harry's Baby" nose art.<ref>[http://warbirdregistry.org/beaufighterregistry/beaufighter-a8386.html "Beaufighter/A8-386."] ''beaufighterregistry''. Retrieved: 3 April 2015.</ref> ;United Kingdom * Beaufighter TF.X, ''RD253'' β Displayed at the [[Royal Air Force Museum]] in London, this aircraft flew with the [[Portuguese Air Force]] as ''BF-13'' in the late 1940s. It was used as an instructional airframe before its return to the UK in 1965. Restoration was completed in 1968, using components scavenged from a wide variety of sources, including some parts recovered from a crash site.<ref>Simpson, Andrew. [http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/74-A-13-Beaufighter-X-RD253.pdf "Individual History: Bristol Beaufighter TF Mark X RD253/BF-13/7931M."] ''Royal Air Force Museum''. Retrieved: 27 March 2013.</ref> * Beaufighter TF.X ''RD220'' β This aircraft is currently displayed while under restoration at the [[National Museum of Flight]] at East Fortune Airfield, east of Edinburgh. Post-war, it served with the Portuguese naval air arm. After passing through the hands of the Portuguese ''[[Museu do Ar]]'' and the [[South African Air Force Museum]], it was acquired by National Museums Scotland in 2000.<ref>[http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/museum_of_flight/things_to_see_and_do/aircraft/1939-1945/beaufighter.aspx "Bristol Beaufighter TF.X."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327203543/http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/museum_of_flight/things_to_see_and_do/aircraft/1939-1945/beaufighter.aspx |date=27 March 2013 }} ''National Museums Scotland''. Retrieved: 27 March 2013.</ref> ;United States * Beaufighter Mk.Ic ''A19-43''<ref>[http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1294014/ "Bristol Beaufighter IC, A19-43 / T5049 / Night Mare, National Museum of the United States Air Force."] ''Air-Britain Photographic Images Collection''. Retrieved: 27 March 2013.</ref> β On public display at the [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]], [[Dayton, Ohio]], since October 2006. Although flown in combat in the south-west Pacific by [[No. 31 Squadron RAAF|31 Squadron]] [[Royal Australian Air Force]], ''A19-43'' is painted as ''T5049'', ''Night Mare'', a USAAF Beaufighter flown by Capt. Harold Augspurger, commander of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, who shot down a [[Heinkel He 111]] carrying German staff officers in September 1944. The Beaufighter was recovered from a dump at [[Nhill]], Australia, in 1971, where it had been abandoned in 1947. It was acquired by the USAF Museum in 1988.<ref>[http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/beaufighter/A19-43.html "Bristol Beaufighter Mark Ic Serial Number A19-43."] ''Pacificwrecks.com'', 26 July 2011. Retrieved: 28 March 2013.</ref>
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