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    Airframe Family: Fairchild 24 Argus / C-61 Forwarder / C-68 / GK / J2K
    Latest Model:Argus III
    Last Military Serial:HB751 RAF
    Construction Number:0989
    Last Civil Registration:G-BCBL
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Argus III sn HB751 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Robert Fleming, Breighton, UK

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1943

    Constructed as an UC-61K-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, MD, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-15025.
    This serial was only used for book-keeping purposes and the airframe was delivered directly to RAF.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n HB751 as a Argus III.

    18 July 1947

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-AEC.

    To unknown owner with c/r D-EKEQ.

    To unknown owner with c/r OO-EKE.

    From 19 March 1974 to 24 August 1977

    To Andrew Horsey, Whitchurch with new c/r G-BCBL.

    1 August 1976


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1976 photo at Shawdene in Berkshire UK

    From 21 September 1977 to 7 August 1984

    To Battle of Britain Prints keeping c/r G-BCBL.

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1978 photo at Bassingbourn

    20 May 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: On display at the 1978 Biggin Hill Air Fair, Kent as RAF Argus III HB 751.

    13 September 1980


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Abingdon Air Show

    By September 1982

    Markings Applied: HB751
    In RAF WWII c/s - yellow ubdersurfaces, brown and green camo top surfaces.

    18 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Abingdon Air Show

    From 13 August 1984 to 3 September 1984

    To Roland Stanford-Tuck, Sandwich, Kent keeping c/r G-BCBL.

    From 6 November 1984 to 27 April 1987

    To William Alan Jordan keeping c/r G-BCBL.

    From 27 April 1987 to 21 July 1989

    To John Turner keeping c/r G-BCBL.

    From 21 July 1989 to 27 August 1991

    To Dega Ltd keeping c/r G-BCBL.

    27 August 1991

    To Francis John Cox, Gorrell Farm, Woolsery, Bideford keeping c/r G-BCBL.

    4 September 2021


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1946 Fairchild UC-61K Argus III (24R-46A) C/N 989 at LAA National Rally at Sywell

    May 2024

    To Robert Fleming, Breighton, UK.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Fleming
    Robert Nichols
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