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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-104 Dove/Devon
    Latest Model:Dove 8
    Construction Number:04520
    Last Civil Registration:G-AREA
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Dove 8 cn 04520 cr G-A...
    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

    Constructed as a Dove 8.

    From 2 August 1960 to 30 June 1963

    To The de Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd, Hatfield, Herts with new c/r G-AREA.

    From 16 July 1963 to 3 April 1965

    To Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd, Hatfield, Herts keeping c/r G-AREA.

    From 19 July 1965 to 15 November 1994

    To British Aerospace PLC, Hatfield keeping c/r G-AREA.

    From 15 November 1994 to 16 March 1995

    To British Aerospace (Operations) Ltd, Saint Albans, Hatfield keeping c/r G-AREA.

    From 16 March 1995 to 19 September 2000

    To Dehavilland Aircraft Museum Trust Ltd, Saint Albans keeping c/r G-AREA.

    Circa 2000

    Placed on display with de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre/Mosquito Aircraft Museum, Salisbury Hall, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire/Herts, England.
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    19 September 2000

    Civil registration, G-AREA, cancelled.

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    11 May 2011


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