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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-84 Dragon / DH-89 Dragon Rapide
    Latest Model:Dominie I
    Last Military Serial:NR786 RAF
    Construction Number:6862
    Last Civil Registration:G-AHGD
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Dominie I sn NR786 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lambourn Woodlands, Membury Airfield, Berkshire - West, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a Dominie I.

    29 March 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n NR786.

    1 April 1946

    To Lancashire Aircraft Corporation with new c/r G-AHGD.

    17 October 1946

    To Universal Flying Services keeping c/r G-AHGD.

    31 October 1949

    To North Sea Air Transport keeping c/r G-AHGD.

    From 6 April 1951 to 23 November 1970

    To Leonard Harper Riddell, Harrogate keeping c/r G-AHGD.

    30 May 1958


    Photographer: via Tony Clarke
    Notes: At Shoreham Airport, Sussex

    22 December 1970

    To Lowe and Oliver Ltd, Batley keeping c/r G-AHGD.

    1972


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1972 photo at Biggin Hill

    From 1 May 1975 to 1 May 1975

    To Michael Ramon Langhorne Astor keeping c/r G-AHGD.

    27 May 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: On display at the 1978 Bassingbourn Airshow, Cambridgeshire

    1980

    Markings Applied: Women of the Empire, Z-7258
    Repainted.

    After 1980


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1978 photo at Old Warden

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 84

    From 28 May 1991 to 28 May 1991

    To Paul Anthony Wood keeping c/r G-AHGD.

    30 June 1991

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Destroyed in crash following stall turn Audley End, near Saffron Walden, Essex 30.6.91; pilot Pete Treadaway killed.

    From 27 November 1991 to 27 November 1991

    To Ralph Jones keeping c/r G-AHGD.

    Based at Lambourn Woodlands, Membury Airfield, Berkshire-West, England.
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    26 July 2013

    Civil registration, G-AHGD, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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