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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:UC-43 Traveler
    Last Military Serial:FZ430 RAF
    Construction Number:4920
    Last Civil Registration:SE-BRY
    Compressed ID:Beech UC-43 sn FZ430 RAF cn 4920 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Per-Erik Hglund, Jarfalla, with Original Engine and prop for sale by AirCo Flying Service, Stockholm-City-Airport

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as an UC-43.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-10872.

    1 February 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n FZ430.
    Delivered New York - Suez.

    23 September 1946

    To Guy Hansez, Brussels, Belgium with new c/r OO-VIT.

    May 1950

    To Rockhammars Bruks AB, Sallinge, Sweden with new c/r SE-BRY.

    April 1958

    To BJRN Hjelm-Lundberg, Huskvarna keeping c/r SE-BRY.

    April 1960

    To Louis Bill, La Chaux-De-Fonds, Switserland with new c/r HB-UIH.

    1968

    To H. W. Berchtold, Geneva/Bern/Yverdon keeping c/r HB-UIH.

    Circa June 1975


    Photographer: Gordon Riley
    Notes: HB-UIH seen hangared at Redhill (EGKR) before re-registration as G-BDGK

    25 July 1975

    To Customline Ltd, London with new c/r G-BDGK.

    From September 1976 to September 1977

    Restored.
    Completely rebuilt by Yorkshire Light Aircraft Ltd, Leeds, painted red with black.

    1978


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1978 at Biggin Hill

    20 May 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: On display at the 1978 Biggin Hill Airshow, Kent.

    27 July 1982

    To Philip Miguel Jaine Wolf, The Old Farmhouse, Outwood, Redhill, Surrey keeping c/r G-BDGK.

    16 May 1990

    Civil registration, G-BDGK, cancelled.

    1 June 1990

    To Exponic Systems AB, Bromma, Sweden with new c/r SE-BRY.

    Circa 1994

    To Per-Erik Hglund, Jarfalla, with Original Engine and prop for sale by AirCo Flying Service, Stockholm-City-Airport keeping c/r SE-BRY.


    Photographer: Unknown
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     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Swedish Transport Agency
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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