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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-114 Heron
    Latest Model:Heron 1
    Construction Number:10903
    Last Civil Registration:VH-CJS
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Heron 1 cn 10903 cr VH...
    Latest Owner or Location:The RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum, Bullcreek, Perth, Western Australia

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    Dates

    Event

    1950

    Constructed as a Heron 1.
    The prototype aircraft

    1950

    To de Havilland Aircraft Company with new c/r G-ALZL.

    From 25 April 1954 to 15 May 1954

    To Braathens SAFE with new c/r LN-BDH.

    30 June 1955

    To Jersey Airlines with new c/r G-ALZL.
    Operated with markings: Duchess of Paris

    9 October 1962

    To Executive Air Transport keeping c/r G-ALZL.

    From 8 May 1964 to 2 June 1965

    Leased to English Electric.

    From 21 September 1965 to November 1966

    Leased to Emerald Airways.

    13 December 1966

    To Dan-Fly with new c/r OY-DGS.

    1968

    To Cimber Air keeping c/r OY-DGS.

    26 September 1969

    To Geoplan keeping c/r OY-DGS.

    August 1973

    To Altair with new c/r VH-CJS.

    February 1974


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: This is the prototype DH.114 Heron, which first flew at Hatfield in May 1950. It was purchased in 1973 by Perth charter operator Altair and ferried from Denmark as OY-DGS. Seen at Perth Jandakot in February 1974 as VH-CJS, in use carrying oil drilling workers to the north of Western Australia

    24 February 1975

    To Armour Coating (Australia) keeping c/r VH-CJS.

    From 24 February 1975 to December 1975

    Leased to Coveair.

    October 1975


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: VH-CJS at Parafield in October 1975, now operated by Coveair, Adelaide

    From 4 December 1975 to 10 May 1976

    Leased to United Air Services.

    March 1976


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: By 1976 VH-CJS was back in Perth, flying charter for Amalgamated Air. I took this shot in March 1976 at Adelaide Airport, where it had just arrived with a load of passengers from Perth during an airline strike

    10 May 1976

    To M. D. Rainsford keeping c/r VH-CJS.

    10 May 1976

    Leased to Amalgamated Air.

    By September 1976

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    At Perth Jandakot Airport.

    31 March 1994


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: In parts with fading Amalgamated Air c/s at Perth-Jandakot, Western Australia

    Based at The Royal Australian Air Force Association, Bullcreek, Perth, Western Australia.
    Under restoration.
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    To The RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum, Bullcreek, Perth, Western Australia.
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