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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.10
    Last Military Serial:WP790 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0682
    Last Civil Registration:G-BBNC
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Chipmunk T.10 sn WP790...
    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

    1951

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.10 by de Havilland at Broughton, Chester.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WP790.

    From 12 October 1973 to 10 January 1974

    To Anthony John Hurst, Mill Hill, London with new c/r G-BBNC.

    23 September 1974

    Withdrawnfrom use.

    27 May 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: As Chipmunk T.10 of the Birmingham University Air Squadron WP790 this was displayed at the 1978 Bassingbourn Air Show.

    April 1989


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the Mosquito Aircraft Museum.

    March 2006

    To de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre/Mosquito Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire/Herts, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    11 May 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the De Havilland Museum at London Colney
    Credits
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    Print Sources
     World Military Out of Service 2008 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
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