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    Airframe Family: Miles M38 Messenger
    Latest Model:M-38 Messenger
    Last Military Serial:RH427 RAF
    Construction Number:6352
    Last Civil Registration:G-AKVZ
    Compressed ID:Miles M-38 sn RH427 RAF cn 6352 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Shipping and Airlines Ltd., London

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a M-38.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n RH427.

    25 June 1948

    To D. E. Hunt, London with new c/r G-AKVZ.

    14 August 1949

    To Thomas Ratcliffe and Company Ltd, Yorkshire, U. K keeping c/r .

    1961


    Photographer: Graham Baker
    Notes: Photograph taken at Biggin Hill, Kent, U.K.Formerly RH427 and still based at Biggin Hill for more than 50 years!

    Aircraft changed ownership many times.

    12 March 1981

    To Shipping and Airlines Ltd, London keeping c/r .

    9 May 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2010 photo whilst attending the Great Vintage Flying Weekend at Kemble

    19 June 2010


    Photographer: robert roggeman
    Notes: EBBT.

    28 April 2013


    Photographer: Graham Reeve (with written permission of Old Buck Shots)
    Notes: 2013 photo at Old Buckenham in the UK
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