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    Airframe Family: Bucker Bu-181 Bestmann
    Latest Model:Gomhouria
    Last Military Serial:345 EAF
    Construction Number:183
    Last Civil Registration:G-TPWX
    Compressed ID:Heliopolis Aircraft Works Gomhouria...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cirrus Aircraft, Sywell, Northamptonshire

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gomhouria by Heliopolis Aircraft Works at Egypt.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Egyptian Air Force with s/n 345.

    To unknown owner with c/r D-EECW.

    10 August 2011

    To William Howard Greenwood, Pulborough with new c/r G-TPWX.

    Markings Applied: TP+WX
    WWII Luftwaffe c/s.

    19 August 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Bucker pair At the 2012 Sywell Airshow in the UK

    19 August 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the 2012 Sywell Airshow in the UK

    19 August 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the 2012 Sywell Airshow in the UK

    5 May 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Abingdon Air Show 2013

    19 May 2018


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At La Ferte Alais, near Paris, France

    7 July 2018

    To Cirrus Aircraft, Sywell, Northamptonshire keeping c/r G-TPWX.


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