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    Airframe Family: Hawker Tomtit
    Latest Model:Tomtit
    Last Military Serial:K1786 RAF
    Construction Number:30380
    Last Civil Registration:G-AFTA
    Compressed ID:Hawker Tomtit sn K1786 RAF cn 30380...
    Latest Owner or Location:Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Tomtit.
    This was the last Tomtit built.

    1930

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n K1786.

    Transferred to Central Flying School.

    To No 3 Flying Training School.

    1949

    To Neville Duke.

    14 May 1950


    Photographer: via Tony Clarke
    Notes: At White Waltham

    1951

    To Hawker Aircraft.

    From 11 May 1960 to 29 October 1981

    To The Executive Committee The Shuttleworth Collection with new c/r G-AFTA.

    Based at Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    1965


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1965 photo at Old Warden

    1965


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1965 photo at Old Warden

    25 March 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: The Shuttleworth Collection displayed their Tomtit at Old Warden in the Spring of 1973.

    By October 1975


    Photographer: Unknown

    26 July 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at a Shuttleworth Flying Day

    8 April 1993

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

    21 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Part of the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden
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     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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