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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-104 Dove/Devon
    Latest Model:Devon C.2
    Last Military Serial:VP958 RAF
    Construction Number:04209
    Last Civil Registration:VH-EOB
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Devon C.2 sn VP958 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Emmett Matthew Obrien, South MacKay, QLD

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1948

    Constructed as a Devon C.1.

    From September 1948 to After 1990

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n VP958.

    10 August 1966

    To Emmett Obrien, South MacKay, QLD with new c/r VH-EOB.

    Circa 1968

    Converted to a Devon C.2.

    21 June 1990

    To Emmett Matthew Obrien, South MacKay, QLD with new c/r VH-EOB.

    16 April 1992

    Damaged.
    At Lindeman Island Qld.

    1994


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1994 photo at MacKay, Queensland

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Parked in open at Mackay, ceased being flown. RAF paintwork deteriorated and became faded.

    1 January 2005


    Photographer: original
    Notes: While at Mackay waiting for overhaul that never happened. Disappeared some time after to unknown parts.

    Circa 2012

    Reported that Emmert OBrien sold the dismantled Dove to a farmer in the Mackay area, who trucked it to his property where the fuselage used as a chicken house.
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