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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-60 Moth
    Latest Model:DH-60 Gipsy Moth
    Construction Number:1411
    Compressed ID:de Havilland DH-60 cn 1411
    Latest Owner or Location:Jean Batten

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a DH-60.
    Built in the summer of 1929. Constructed at Stag Lane as a DH-60M with welded steel tube fuselage, Autoslot wings and DH Gipsy I engine (#742).

    August 1929

    To SQN LDR David Sigismund Don (nominee for HRH The Prince of Wales), RAF Northolt.
    Registered (C of R 2127) to Sqn Ldr David Sigismund Don.

    5 September 1929

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-AALG (DH60G GIPSY MOTH, 1411) issued.
    Delivered to David Sigismund Don on the same day.

    Transferred to Windsor Great Park.
    Based here.

    Transferred to RAF Northolt.
    Based here.

    From Circa December 1929 to Circa January 1930

    In late 1929 to early 1930 used for the Royal Tour of East Africa.

    April 1930

    To FLT LT Edward H Fielden (nominee for The Prince of Wales).
    Re-registered [CofR 2524].

    To Victor Hugh Doree.
    Elizabeth Corrie (7 October 2019): This plane belonged to the and was subsequently bought by my father Victor Hugh Doree.

    Loaned to Jean Batten.
    Elizabeth Corrie (7 October 2019): Who lent it to the New Zealand aviatrix Jean Batten on her first attempt to beat Amy Johnsons record to fly solo to Australia. Jean crashed the plane in Karachi India in 1933.

    Fitted with Gipsy II #2029.

    1933

    Crashed.
    Went down in Karachi, India.

    Circa 1933


    Photographer: V H Doree
    Notes: At Stag Lane following purchase by V H Doree for use by Jean Batten

    Circa February 1933


    Photographer: V H Doree (Gordon Riley Collection)
    Notes: Jean Batten posing with Victor Doree and another person at Stag Lane prior to her record attempt
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     Elizabeth Corrie
    Gordon Riley
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