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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.10
    Last Military Serial:WK520 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0557
    Last Civil Registration:G-BARS
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10 s...
    Latest Owner or Location:John Beattie, Yeovil, Robert Malcolm Scarre, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-On-Tees

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.10.

    31 January 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK520.

    From 26 February 1973 to 11 November 1993

    To Thomas Ian Sutton with new c/r G-BARS.

    26 February 1973

    Based at RNAS Yeovilton (south side), Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    Markings Applied: 1377
    Wears false Portuguese Air Force serial and markings.

    From 11 November 1993 to 20 January 1994

    To Martin Russell Keen keeping c/r G-BARS.

    From 20 January 1994 to 19 March 1998

    To Paul Cawte keeping c/r G-BARS.

    From 19 March 1998 to 17 November 2011

    To John Beattie keeping c/r G-BARS.

    17 July 2002


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Airshow

    21 September 2002


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    17 November 2011

    To John Beattie, Yeovil, Robert Malcolm Scarre, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-On-Tees keeping c/r G-BARS.

    1 February 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett

    8 July 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    13 July 2019


    Photographer: Alan Kilham
    Notes: On static display at the RNAS Yeovilton International Air Show. Painted in false Portuguese Air Force markings
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