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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.10
    Last Military Serial:WG416 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0490
    Last Civil Registration:VH-TUG
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Chipmunk T.10 sn WG416...
    Latest Owner or Location:Gliding Club of Western Australia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.10 by de Havilland at Broughton, Chester.

    10 October 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WG416.

    6 November 1956

    To G. B. Youl, Tasmania with new c/r VH-GBY.

    2 September 1960

    To Royal Aero Club of South Australia with new c/r VH-BWK.

    March 1965

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-CKD.

    27 October 1965

    To Gliding Club of Western Australia with new c/r VH-TUG.

    8 December 1968

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    After damage at Cunderin.

    February 1970


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: An earlier Chipmunk glider tug at Cunderdin was VH-TUG. It was a structural write-off after rolling forward into a deep drain while having a propeller hand-swing engine start at Cunderdin in December 1968
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