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    Airframe Family: Caudron G-3
    Latest Model:G.3
    Construction Number:7487
    Last Civil Registration:G - AETA
    Compressed ID:Caudron G.3 cn 7487 cr G - AETA
    Latest Owner or Location:Ministry of Defense

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    Dates

    Event

    1916

    Constructed as a G.3 by Caudron at Issy - le - Moulineaux, Paris, France.

    21 July 1921

    To Societe Denterprises Generales Aeronautiques (SEGA), Gosselies.

    26 August 1928

    To Mr.. Petermans, Brussels.

    1929

    To unknown owner with c/r OO - ELA.

    27 April 1930

    To Club Des Aviateurs de Belgique/M. J. E. Leduc, Brussels.

    Circa 1936

    To International Horseless Carriage/Richard G. J. Nash.

    29 January 1937

    Civil registration G - AETA (CAUDRON G3, 7487) reserved but not taken up.

    27 February 1937

    Civil registration, OO - ELA, cancelled.

    From 1939 to 1945

    Stored dismantled at Brooklands.

    Stored at Weybridge.

    Stored at Weybridge.

    From 1958 to 1959

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at RAF Hendon.
    Stored in No 106 Hangar at RAF.

    1960

    Stored in a hangar at Heathrow.

    1962

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at RAF Upavon.

    1964

    Loaned to RAF Mueum.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at RAF Upavon.

    January 1964

    Transported by ground. Delivered to RAF Stradishall, Suffolk.
    Moved from Upavon to Stradishall.

    Restoration started.
    Restoration started by volunteers at Stradishall.

    Circa August 1966

    Transported by ground. Delivered to RAF Museum Store, RAF Henlow.
    Moved from Stradishall to Henlow.

    To Ken Waller.

    From 1970 to 1971

    Restoration continued.
    Restoration resumed at Henlow.

    1972

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Castle Cornet, Shifnal, Shropshire/Shrops, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    March 1992

    To Ministry of Defense.
    Formally purchased by the Ministry of Defense from the Royal Aero Society, and remained displayed at the RAF Museum at Hendon.

    19 July 1993

    New serial number assigned: 9203M RAF

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    11 December 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Caudron G3 is part of the Grahame-White Factory Aircraft Collection at the RAF Hendon Museum
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