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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-90 Dragonfly
    Latest Model:DH-90A Dragonfly
    Construction Number:7508
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-AYR
    Compressed ID:de Havilland DH-90A cn 7508 cr ZK-A...
    Latest Owner or Location:Croydon Aviation Heritage Museum, Mandeville, Southland, South Island

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    Dates

    Event

    1936

    Constructed as a DH-90A.

    From 9 May 1936 to July 1938

    To RT. Hon. Sir Phillip Sassoon, London with new c/r G-AEDT.
    Based at Hendon.

    25 March 1938

    To Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, Mascot Aerodrome, Sydney with new c/r VH-AAD.

    14 June 1951

    To Bush Pilots Airways Pty Ltd, Cairns Queensland keeping c/r VH-AAD.

    8 June 1956

    To Griffith Aero Club, Griffith NSW keeping c/r VH-AAD.

    Prior to delivery to the UK - Repainted as G-AEDT in Beagle Aircraft Ltd house colours blue and white with gold trim and Beagle motif on the nose.

    3 October 1963

    To David, Lord Trefgarne, Pembroke House, Chobham, Surrey with new c/r G-AEDT.
    Based at Shoreham.

    Markings Applied: Endeavour

    1964

    To Tallmantz Collection/Movieland of the Air, Santa Ana, CA.


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: DH-90 Dragonfly at the Tallmantz Museum, Santa Ana,

    August 1964

    To Tallmantz Collection, Santa Ana CA with new c/r N2034.
    Registration never painted on the aircraft.

    1966

    Tallmantz collection purchased by Rosen Novak Auto Co, Omaha, Nebraska.

    April 1969

    To Joseph L. Terteling, Boise Idaho.
    Purchased at Auction.

    From May 1969 to 1986

    Held in Joe Tertelings collection of 40 vintage aircraft and gliders at Glider Field, Boise ID.During the 1970s the aircraft fell into poor condition in ramshackle hangars.DH.90 was stored dismantled, covered in dust, still painted as G-AEDT.

    From 27 April 1987 to 27 April 1987

    To Brian Woodford T/A Wessex Aviation and Transport Ltd with new c/r G-AEDT.

    15 July 1988

    First post-reassembly Flight.

    7 July 1991


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: De Havilland DH90A Dragonfly G-AEDT at the PFA Rally 91, RNAY Wroughton. This aircraft was sold in New Zealand in 1997

    1996

    To Colin Smith, Croydon Aviation Heritage Trust, New Zealand.

    12 September 1997

    To Barry Kemshall Donovan, C/O Flight Operations, Cathay Pacific Airways, Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong (sar PRC).

    1 April 1998

    To Colin Smith Trading as Croydon Aircraft Co Ltd, Mandeville Airfield, Gore NZ with new c/r ZK-AYR.

    To Croydon Aircraft Company, Mandeville, Southland, South Island.
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    17 March 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Croydon Aviation Heritage Centre, South Island, New Zealand

    To Croydon Aviation Heritage Museum, Mandeville, Southland, South Island.
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    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger

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