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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk 22A
    Last Military Serial:WD290 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0230
    Last Civil Registration:N83778
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk 22A sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bates William Stephen, Alexandria, VA

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    Dates

    Event

    1950

    Constructed as a Chipmunk 22A.

    28 December 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WD290.

    21 February 1957

    To Airways Aero Association with new c/r G-AOZV.
    John Stephen Gregson comments (14 January 2022): This should read Airways Aero Association, the pilots club of BOAC and BEA, and I learnt to fly on her at Biggin Hill in the spring of 1960.

    6 July 1960

    To College of Air Training, Hamble keeping c/r G-AOZV.

    From 6 March 1969 to 10 September 1973

    To Addiscombe Aviation, Biggin Hill, London keeping c/r G-AOZV.

    Circa 1970


    Photographer: Joseph Merchant

    16 June 1977

    To Marcus L. Bates, Odessa, TX with new c/r N83778.

    16 June 1977

    To Marcus L. Bates, Leander, TX keeping c/r N83778.

    4 January 1991

    To Marcus L. Bates, Odessa, TE keeping c/r N83778.

    1 October 2015

    To Bates William Stephen, Alexandria, VA keeping c/r N83778.
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