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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.1
    Construction Number:061
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-ARL
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.1 cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooklands Syndicate, Otane

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.1 by de Havilland Canada at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    27 April 1949

    To de Havilland Aircraft Company of New Zealand with new c/r ZK-ARL.

    11 July 1949

    To Wellington Aero Club keeping c/r ZK-ARL.

    October 1954

    To unknown owner with c/r ZK-ARL.
    Private owner.

    1983

    Damaged.
    Damaged at Orewa in 1983 following an engine failure.

    13 February 1983

    Damaged at Orewa following an engine failure.

    21 March 1990

    To James Alexander Chapman, Christchurch keeping c/r ZK-ARL.

    29 March 2009


    Photographer: David Paull
    Notes: At Rangiora Airport, South Island, New Zealand

    31 May 2022

    To Brooklands Syndicate, Otane.

    23 January 2023


    Photographer: Simon Hills
    Notes: Seen at Wanganui, NZ. Wearing false RAF serial of WB548, first British produced Chipmunk was WB549
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