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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Taylorcraft A / J-2 / J-3 / J-4 / J-5 / L-4/O-59/C-83 Grasshopper / L-18 Super Cub / L-21 Super Grasshopper / PA-11/PA-18/PA-19
    Latest Model:L-4B Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:43-1145 USAAF
    Construction Number:10006
    Last Civil Registration:G-BBLH
    Compressed ID:Piper L-4B sn 43-1145 USAAF cn 1000...
    Latest Owner or Location:Shipping and Airlines Ltd Hangar 513, Biggin HIll Airport Biggin Hill Westerham TN16 3BN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-4B by Piper.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-1145.

    12 August 1950

    To AC Des Anciens Eleves de Lecole Nat Super Aero with new c/r F-BFQY.

    5 July 1966

    To Aero Club de Chatou Vanves keeping c/r F-BFQY.

    October 1973

    To Barry Lister with new c/r G-BBLH.

    31 January 1974

    To Robert Fussell and Paul Robinson keeping c/r G-BBLH.

    15 May 1974

    To Richard Ball and Suzanne Brooks keeping c/r G-BBLH.

    26 January 1977

    To Phillip Ashley Mann keeping c/r G-BBLH.

    20 May 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Seen at the 1978 Biggin Hill Air Fair as O-59A Grasshopper 43-1145

    18 November 1985

    To Shipping and Airlines Ltd Hangar 513, Biggin HILL Airport Biggin HILL Westerham TN16 3BN keeping c/r G-BBLH.

    To Biggin Hill Airport, Croydon, London, England.
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    3 May 1993

    To Michael John Dunkerly, PEN-AR-LAND, Ouessant 29242 France and Peter Greenyer, 601 London Road, GRAYS RM17 1AU keeping c/r G-BBLH.

    30 August 1993


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Great Warbirds Airshow Wroughton 1993

    16 January 1999

    To Shipping and Airlines Ltd Hangar 513, Biggin HIll Airport Biggin Hill Westerham TN16 3BN keeping c/r G-BBLH.

    Markings Applied: 26-G, 31145

    17 June 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Arriving at North Weald for the Air Britain Fly-In
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     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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