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    Airframe Family: Fairchild 24 Argus / C-61 Forwarder / C-68 / GK / J2K
    Latest Model:Argus III
    Last Military Serial:KK527 RAF
    Construction Number:1145
    Last Civil Registration:G-RGUS
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Argus III sn KK527 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:James Lincoln Bryan, Stamford

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as an UC-61K-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, MD, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-83184.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KK527 as a Argus III.

    To unknown owner with c/r ZS-BAY.

    1949


    Photographer: Arthur Schoeman
    Notes: This is the Fairchild ZSBAY with two Tiger Moths. Standing are Jurie Arthur Schoeman and Marthinus Gerhardus Schoeman - brothers, MG Schoeman was a Spitfire fighter pilot in Italy in WWII. I am the son of Jurie Arthur Schoeman. My name is Arthur Schoeman. I am pleased that the Fairchild has been so meticulously restored.

    To unknown owner with c/r ZS-UJC.

    1977

    To unknown owner with c/r ZS-UJZ.

    16 September 1986

    To Peter Lancaster with new c/r G-RGUS.

    From 16 September 1986 to 29 July 1987

    To Peter Anthony Lancaster keeping c/r G-RGUS.

    From 1986 to 2009

    Changed ownership five times.

    Based at UK Parachuting, Sibson Airfield, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    From 29 July 1987 to 30 July 1990

    To Anthony Ettwell Poulson keeping c/r G-RGUS.

    From 22 October 1990 to 18 August 1993

    To Ronald Cornelis Handgraff keeping c/r G-RGUS.

    From 5 February 1998 to 1 July 2005

    To Fenlands Ltd keeping c/r G-RGUS.

    From 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2009

    To Patrick James Bryan keeping c/r G-RGUS.

    23 May 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Photo in hangar at its base at Peterborough, Sibson airfield in the Uk

    30 June 2009

    To Tim Coulton and James Bryan keeping c/r G-RGUS.

    From 30 June 2009 to 16 June 2014

    To Timothy Roy Coulton keeping c/r G-RGUS.

    Circa 16 June 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-RGUS (FAIRCHILD 24R-46A, 1145) issued.

    Markings Applied: ARMY, 44-83184

    16 June 2014

    To James Lincoln Bryan, Stamford keeping c/r G-RGUS.

    2 July 2017


    Photographer: David Blaker
    Notes: Photographed at the Military Pageant, Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Airfield, Bedfordshire, UK

    6 May 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    6 May 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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     Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
    Arthur Schoeman
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