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    Airframe Family: Luscombe Model 8
    Latest Model:8E Silvaire
    Construction Number:2464
    Last Civil Registration:G-AKUI
    Compressed ID:Luscombe 8E cn 2464 cr G-AKUI
    Latest Owner or Location:David Arthur Sims, 11 Caistor Close, Stoke-On-Trent, Addressee Status: Deceased

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    Dates

    Event

    1947

    Constructed as a 8E.
    LUSCOMBE 8E 2464

    To unknown owner with c/r N45937.

    16 May 1980


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Lakeland, Florida

    28 September 1988

    Civil registration, N45937, cancelled.

    From 24 October 1988 to 24 October 1988

    To Clifford Charles Lovell with new c/r G-AKUI.

    From 11 January 1989 to 11 January 1989

    To Martin James Ellis keeping c/r G-AKUI.

    From 21 June 1990 to 21 June 1990

    To Micahel Arthur Watts keeping c/r G-AKUI.

    From 13 March 1992 to 13 March 1992

    To John Aubrey Pothecary keeping c/r G-AKUI.

    24 August 1999

    To David Arthur Sims, 11 Caistor Close, Stoke-On-Trent, Addressee Status: Deceased keeping c/r G-AKUI.

    May 2007


    Photographer: Roger Howe

    26 August 2008

    Civil registration, G-AKUI, cancelled.
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