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    Airframe Family: Airspeed AS-57/AS-57 Ambassador / AS-60 Ayrshire / AS-64 / AS-66 / AS-67
    Latest Model:Ambassador 2
    Last Military Serial:108 RJAF
    Construction Number:5226
    Last Civil Registration:G-ALZO
    Compressed ID:Airspeed Ambassador 2 sn 108 RJAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1950

    Constructed as an Ambassador 2.

    5 April 1950

    To Airspeed with new c/r G-ALZO.

    From 25 November 1952 to May 1959

    To British European Airways keeping c/r G-ALZO.

    May 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Jordanian Air Force with s/n 108.

    From 26 February 1963 to 10 September 1981

    To Dan-Air London.


    Photographer: Robert A. Edwards
    Notes: G-ALZO Airspeed AS57 Ambassador 2 (5226) Dan-Air London, at Gatwick.

    3 October 1971

    Last flight.
    Flown from Zagreb, Yugoslavia, to Lasham, Hampshire, England.

    19 April 1974


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: G-ALZO - Airspeed Ambassador of Dan-Air London at Lasham on 19th April 1974

    16 October 1986

    To Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    20 August 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Under heavy maintenance at Duxford, UK

    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
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