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    Airframe Family: Miles M14
    Latest Model:Hawk Trainer III
    Last Military Serial:BB661 RAF
    Construction Number:0539
    Last Civil Registration:G-AFBS
    Compressed ID:Miles Hawk Trainer III sn BB661 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1937

    Constructed as a Hawk Trainer III.

    17 September 1937

    To Phillips and Powis Aircraft (Reading) Ltd with new c/r G-AFBS.

    17 September 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n BB661.

    23 June 1948

    To Speedbird Flying Club, London with new c/r G-AFBS.

    From 9 October 1952 to 21 July 1963

    To Denham Flying Club, Denham Aerodrome, Buckinghamshire keeping c/r G-AFBS.

    7 March 1953


    Photographer: Gerald Lawrance ( via Tony Clarke )
    Notes: At Denham Aerodrome

    15 March 1965

    To Gilbert Denis Durbridge-Freeman, Lloyds Bank PLC, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire keeping c/r G-AFBS.

    22 December 1995

    Civil registration, G-AFBS, cancelled.

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    Markings Applied: A

    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Imperial War Museum in Duxford


    Photographer: Norm Jukes
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