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    Airframe Family: Parnall Elf
    Latest Model:Elf
    Construction Number:J.6
    Last Civil Registration:G-AAIN
    Compressed ID:Parnall Elf cn J.6 cr G-AAIN
    Latest Owner or Location:Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire - Central, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1932

    Constructed as an Elf.
    The sole surviving Elf first flew in 1932 and was purchased from Parnall by Lord Apsley at Badminton in November 1934, he previously having owned the prototype which was written off in a forced landing, and later was stored for the duration of WW II

    1934

    To Allen Algemon Bathurst-(Lord Aspley) with new c/r G-AAIN.

    13 April 1946

    To Douglas Barry Bruce, Croydon keeping c/r G-AAIN.

    10 May 1950

    To William Joseph Nobbs keeping c/r G-AAIN.

    21 July 1951


    Photographer: via Tony Clarke
    Notes: At RAF Hendon

    Circa 1980


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: Circa 1980 at Old Warden

    To Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    8 August 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Showing its Cirrus Hermes II - engine as part of the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, UK

    20 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Part of The Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden
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