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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.10
    Last Military Serial:WK635 RN
    Construction Number:C1-0650/DHB.f.541
    Last Civil Registration:G-HFRH
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Chipmunk T.10 sn WK635...
    Latest Owner or Location:NWMAS Leasing Ltd, Hawarden

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.10 by de Havilland at Broughton, Chester.
    Dehavilland DHC-1 CHIPMUNK 22 C1-0650

    5 June 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK635.

    12 May 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WK635.

    From By 1982 to Circa 1993

    Transferred to RNAS Yeovilton Station Flight.

    29 July 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Airshow

    1994

    Assigned to RAF Shawbury for storage.

    Circa 1997

    To unknown owner.
    Sold to unknown in Canada.

    4 November 1999

    To Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN with new c/r N546PU.

    12 October 2010

    Civil registration, N546PU, cancelled.
    Exported to United Kingdom.

    13 October 2010

    To Sunrise Global Aviation Ltd, Turweston Aerodrome, Brackley with new c/r G-HFRH.

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 G-HFRH in the hangar at Bicester. It still wears its former UK Military serial WK635 and the colours of RNAS Yeovilton Station Flight.

    From 4 August 2014 to 23 December 2015

    To Alistair Chadwick and Paula Jacobs, The Wirral keeping c/r G-HFRH.

    From 23 December 2015 to 26 May 2020

    To Paula Jacobs, Birkenhead keeping c/r G-HFRH.

    26 May 2020

    To NWMAS Leasing Ltd, Hawarden keeping c/r G-HFRH.

    22 May 2021


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At the Chipmunk 75th Anniversary fly-in, Old Warden
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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