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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-53 Humming Bird
    Latest Model:DH-53 Hmmingbird
    Last Military Serial:8 RAF
    Construction Number:98
    Last Civil Registration:G-EBHX
    Compressed ID:de Havilland DH-53 sn 8 RAF cn 98 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire - Central, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DH-53.

    14 September 1937

    To Ernest Wilfred Kennet, Walmer, Kent with new c/r G-EBHX.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n 8.

    From 4 August 1967 to 29 October 1981

    To Allan Henry Wheeler with new c/r G-EBHX.

    29 June 1975


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Old Warden

    From 29 October 1981 to 8 April 1993

    To The Executive Committee The Shuttleworth Collection keeping c/r G-EBHX.

    To Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    8 April 1993

    To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade keeping c/r G-EBHX.

    5 September 2010

    20 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: A 1923 built De Havilland DH53 Humming Bird in the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden

    20 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: A 1923 built De Havilland DH53 Humming Bird in the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden

    20 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: A 1923 built De Havilland DH53 Humming Bird in the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden

    20 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Back to the Hangar for a 1923 built De Havilland DH53 Humming Bird in the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden

    20 April 2012


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

    2 July 2012

    2 July 2012

    Crashed.

    To Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
    Restoration started.
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