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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-104 Dove/Devon
    Latest Model:Dove 8
    Last Military Serial:VP961 RAF
    Construction Number:04211
    Last Civil Registration:G-HBBC
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Dove 8 sn VP961 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Roger Charles Gawn, Trustee of:, Melton Hall, Melton Park, Melton Constable

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    Dates

    Event

    1948

    Constructed as a Dove 8 by de Havilland at Hawarden, Cheshire, UK.

    1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n VP961.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-ALFM.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-HBBC.

    Based at Compton Abbas Airfield, Melbury Abbas, Dorset, England.
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    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    From 27 November 1984 to 23 August 1989

    To Alan David Hemley with new c/r G-ALFM.

    From 23 August 1989 to 24 January 1996

    To Charles Charalambous keeping c/r G-ALFM.

    From 24 January 1996 to 14 May 2010

    To BBC Air Ltd keeping c/r G-HBBC.

    20 July 2006


    Photographer: John Taggart
    Notes: believed to now be scrapped??? taken at Farnborough air show

    14 May 2010

    To Roger Charles Gawn, Trustee of:, Melton Hall, Melton Park, Melton Constable with new c/r G-HBBC.

    22 May 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Compton Abbas, Dorset, UK
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     Roger Byron-Collins
    Bob Edmunds
    Terry Fletcher
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