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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-114 Heron
    Latest Model:Sea Heron C.1
    Last Military Serial:XR443 RN
    Construction Number:14072
    Last Civil Registration:VH-NJP
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Sea Heron C.1 sn XR443...
    Latest Owner or Location:Al Mahatta Museum, Al Qasimia, Sharjah, Ash Shariqah

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a Heron 2.

    13 April 1955

    To West African Airways Corporation with new c/r VR-NAQ.

    1 October 1958

    To West African Airways (Nigeria) Ltd keeping c/r VR-NAQ.

    28 August 1960

    To Overseas Aviation keeping c/r VR-NAQ.

    17 March 1961

    To Overseas Aviation with new c/r G-ARKU.

    28 March 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XR443.

    28 March 1961

    Redesignated as Sea Heron C.1.

    By July 1982

    Transferred to Station Flight, RNAS Culdrose.

    28 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Day

    By July 1983

    Transferred to Heron Flight, RNAS Yeovilton.

    23 July 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT 83

    December 1989

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Shawbury.

    From 20 April 1990 to 2 January 1992

    To David Liddell-Grainger with new c/r G-ODLG.

    From 2 January 1992 to 23 August 1993

    To RSJ Aviation International Ltd keeping c/r G-ODLG.

    31 August 1993

    To Ibj International Aviation Consultants Pty Ltd, Trading As:, Heron Airlines, Como West, New South Wales, Australia keeping c/r G-ODLG.

    8 September 1993

    Civil registration, G-ODLG, cancelled.

    September 1993

    To Heron Airlines with new c/r VH-NJP.

    1994


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1994 photo at Bankstown, NSW

    November 1995

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Bankstown.

    Based at Al Mahatta Museum, Al Qasimia, Sharjah, Ash Shariqah.
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    Markings Applied: G-ANFE
    Wearing false registration.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Simon Hills
    Robert Nichols
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