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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk 22
    Last Military Serial:WP975 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0841
    Last Civil Registration:G-BAVH
    Latest Owner or Location:Gordon MacDonald/G-BAVH Syndicate

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a Chipmunk 22.

    20 February 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WP975.

    10 April 1973

    To Royal Air Force Gliding Club, Bicester with new c/r G-BAVH.

    From 5 March 1981 to 6 August 1992

    To Peter John Spragg/Portsmouth Naval Gliding Club keeping c/r G-BAVH.

    From 6 August 1992 to 3 February 2000

    To Portsmouth Naval Gliding Club keeping c/r G-BAVH.

    Circa 3 February 2000

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-BAVH (DHC-1 CHIPMUNK 22 (LYCOMING), C1/0841) issued.

    3 February 2000

    To David Cairns Murray, Trustee of:, Portsmouth Naval Gliding Club, Fareham keeping c/r G-BAVH.

    23 February 2014


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk G-BAVH at Lee-on-Solent and operated by the Portsmouth Naval Gliding Club

    26 September 2018

    To Gordon MacDonald/G-BAVH Syndicate keeping c/r G-BAVH.

    6 June 2021


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At the Chipmunk 75th Anniversary fly-in, Old Warden UK
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