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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.10
    Last Military Serial:WK585 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0608
    Last Civil Registration:G-BZGA
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10 s...
    Latest Owner or Location:Compton Abbas Airfield, Melbury Abbas, Dorset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.10.

    2 April 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK585.

    By 1972

    Transferred to Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde Air Squadron, Glasgow Airport.

    28 January 1972


    Photographer: William macleod

    13 August 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Chipmunk T.10 of 12 Air Experience Flight on display at the 1977 RAF Lossiemouth Open Day.

    29 October 1996

    Transferred to Air Training Cadets HQ, RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire.
    Displayed as a gate guard.

    New serial number assigned: 9265M RAF
    Assigned RAF maintenance serial at Cranwell.

    From 31 March 2000 to 1 May 2003

    To Propshop Ltd with new c/r G-BZGA.

    1 May 2003

    To The Real Flying Company Ltd, Shoreham Airport, Shoreham-By-Sea keeping c/r G-BZGA.

    1 December 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Circling at Shoreham Airport

    10 July 2017

    To Compton Abbas Airfield Ltd, Salisbury.
    Markings added: WK585

    July 2017

    Base of operations changed to: Compton Abbas Airfield, Melbury Abbas, Dorset, England.
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