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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk 22
    Last Military Serial:WD390 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0317
    Last Civil Registration:G-BWNK
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk 22 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Compton Abbas Airfield, Melbury Abbas, Dorset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1951

    Constructed as a Chipmunk 22.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WD390.

    To Wickenby, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    Markings Applied: WD390

    27 May 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Chipmunk T.10 of 9 Air Experience Flight at RAF Finningley in May 1988.

    From 4 March 1996 to 10 August 1998

    To Bruce Ackroyd Groves with new c/r G-BWNK.

    From 10 August 1998 to 9 February 2007

    To Barry Whitworth keeping c/r G-BWNK.

    9 February 2007

    To Stewart Smith, Trustee of:, The Old Bakehouse, Market Place, Wragby, Market Rasen keeping c/r G-BWNK.

    21 August 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Guest at DH Moth Club Rally at Belvoir Castle in the UK

    15 February 2016

    To Michael Nelson Trustee of: WD390 GROUP, 16 Burges Close, Marnhull, Sturminster, Newton DT10 1QQ keeping c/r G-BWNK.
    Markings added: WD390 / 68

    Circa March 2016

    Based at Compton Abbas Airfield, Melbury Abbas, Dorset, England.
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    By 6 March 2021


    Photographer: Pat Patrick

    By 6 March 2021


    Photographer: Pat Patrick
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