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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-84 Dragon / DH-89 Dragon Rapide
    Latest Model:DH-89A Dragon Rapide
    Last Military Serial:NR750 RAF
    Construction Number:6838
    Last Civil Registration:G-AKIF
    Compressed ID:de Havilland DH-89A sn NR750 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Classic Wings, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a DH-89A.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n NR750.

    27 September 1947

    To A. Hamson and Sons Ltd with new c/r G-AKIF.

    12 October 1947

    To Manx Airlines Ltd keeping c/r G-AKIF.

    16 October 1958

    To Hants and Sussex Aviation Ltd keeping c/r G-AKIF.

    1959


    Photographer: Breeden Collection

    5 February 1959

    To Thomas Hutton Henshall keeping c/r G-AKIF.

    2 August 1971

    To unknown owner with c/r LN-BEZ.

    12 September 1973

    To Airborne Taxi Services Ltd, Swire House, London with new c/r G-AKIF (DH89A RAPIDE, 6838).

    Based at Classic Wings, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    1979


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1979 photo at Hatfield


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, UK.

    22 April 2003


    Photographer: Philip Pain
    Notes: At Jurby Airfield, Isle of Man - Arrived in this temporary scheme for a film about the German occupation of the Channel Islands.

    12 July 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2007 photo at Duxford
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    de Havilland Aircraft Production
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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