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    Airframe Family: Handley Page HP-39 Gugnunc
    Latest Model:HP-39 Gugnunc
    Last Military Serial:K1908 RAE
    Last Civil Registration:G-AACN
    Compressed ID:Handley Page HP-39 sn K1908 RAE cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Aircraft Establishment

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    Dates

    Event

    1928

    Constructed as a HP-39.

    From 1928 to December 1930

    To Handley Page Ltd, Crickllewood, London with new c/r G-AACN (HP39 GUGNUNC, 1).

    1931

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Air Ministry with s/n K1908.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n K1908.

    1934

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Aircraft Establishment.

    21 July 1951


    Photographer: via Tony Clarke
    Notes: At RAF Hendon Air Show

    14 May 2014


    Photographer: Vince Horan
    Notes: At Wroughton - Only one example of the type was constructed, allotted civil registration G-AACN. It used slots and flaps to achieve the necessary low speed and short takeoff and landing distances for the various Guggenheim prizes.

    8 March 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At the Science Museum, South Kensington, London, UK
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