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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-53 Humming Bird
    Latest Model:DH-53 Hmmingbird
    Last Military Serial:J7326 RAF
    Construction Number:114
    Last Civil Registration:G-EBQP
    Compressed ID:de Havilland DH-53 sn J7326 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre / Mosquito Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire / Herts, England

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    Dates

    Event

    4 April 1927

    Constructed as a DH-53.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n J7326.

    Transferred to RAE Aero Club.

    18 April 1934

    To Robert Henry Somerset, Saltash, Cornwall with new c/r G-EBQP.

    21 July 1934

    Crashed.
    Crashed at Hamble.

    23 August 1977

    Restoration completed.
    Restoration completed.

    From 23 August 1977 to 8 April 2008

    To G-EBQP Syndicate, Field Dalling, Holt, England, UK keeping c/r G-EBQP.

    8 April 2008

    To Peter Lawrence Kirk, Wheathampstead, Sait Albans, England, UK keeping c/r G-EBQP.

    To de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre/Mosquito Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire/Herts, England.
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    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    10 May 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the De Havilland Museum at London Colney

    22 April 2011


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at De Havilland Aircraft Museum, London Colney, Hertfordshire, England
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     World Military Out of Service 2008 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Air Britain
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Golden Years of Aviation
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