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    Airframe Family: Percival P-28/P-29/P-30/P-31/P-34/P-46 Proctor
    Latest Model:Proctor I
    Last Military Serial:P6187 RAF
    Construction Number:K.246
    Last Civil Registration:VH-UXS
    Compressed ID:Percival Proctor I sn P6187 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Paul Alexander Gliddon, Kalamunda, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    1939

    Constructed as a Proctor I.
    PROCTOR MK I P6187

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n P6187.

    29 March 1946

    To Brevet Flying Club Ltd, Mayfair, London with new c/r G-AHFU.

    May 1946

    To Chartair Ltd, Croydon Airport keeping c/r G-AHFU.

    17 August 1948

    To Airtech Ltd, Aylesbury and Thame Airport, Buckinghamshire keeping c/r G-AHFU.

    6 September 1949

    To Chartair Ltd, Aylesbury and Thame Airport, Buckinghamshire keeping c/r G-AHFU.

    25 November 1952

    To Reginald J. Hawkins. Woodley, Berks keeping c/r G-AHFU.

    2 March 1955

    To William A. Reeks (and) Gerard Hugh, London keeping c/r G-AHFU.

    November 1955

    Owners intended to fly the aircraft from London UK to Sydney, Australia.

    11 November 1955

    Involved in an incident.
    To young men have been flying a single engined plane from London to Sydney. They are Gerald Hugh and William Reeks. They left England early last month and were given up for lost in the Persian Gulf when they had been missing for three days after leaving Bahrain on Nov 11. It was reported that wreckage of their machine had been sighted by a seaplane. However it turned out that the plane had overshot its objective, Bahrain, and landed on a beach with little petrol left. Reeks walked along the beach for 18 hours before he sighted a truck, which took him to an oil drilling camp. Hugh, meanwhile, had tried to paddle a rubber dinghy to an offshore island but the current has washed him on to the beach almost exhausted. He was found the next day by a searching seaplane. The airmen are now flying on to Sydney.

    28 February 1958

    To Kingsford Smith Flying Service Pty Ltd, Bankstown with new c/r VH-DUL.

    3 June 1958

    To Dulmison (Australia) Pty Ltd, 40 Miller Street, North Sydney keeping c/r VH-DUL.

    14 February 1963

    To Kenneth Charles Cassell, 230 President Ave, Miranda, Sydney keeping c/r VH-DUL.

    January 1964


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Bankstown January 1964, white and blue, still with Dulmison titles.

    9 November 1964

    To L. K. Kirk, 22 Aubrey Street, Granville, Sydney keeping c/r VH-DUL.

    1972

    Withdrawn from use.
    At Berwick - pending restoration.

    Circa 1977

    To Maurice Rolfe, Executive Air Maintenance, Essendon Airport, Melbourne.

    20 February 1995

    To Maurice Rolfe, Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne with new c/r VH-UXS.

    Restoration continued.
    Under restoration in rear of old Flinders Island Airlines hangar, Moorabbin.

    8 June 2005

    To Maurice Rolfe, Cheltenham East, VIC keeping c/r VH-UXS.

    13 January 2013

    To Paul Gliddon, Kalamunda, WA keeping c/r VH-UXS.

    Restoration continued.
    Moved from Moorabbin to Traralgon Vic, as a rebuild project.

    24 January 2013

    To Paul Alexander Gliddon, Kalamunda, WA keeping c/r VH-UXS.

    Restoration continued.
    Airworthy restoration under way at Traralgon Vic in the workshop of Latrobe Valley Airframes and Welding.

    December 2018


    Photographer: Latrobe Valley Airframes and Welding Pty Ltd
    Notes: Airworthy restoration under way at Traralgon Vic in the workshop of Latrobe Valley Airframes and Welding.


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    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall

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